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HOME WEEK^ 




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SSUED BY THE PUBLICITY DEPARTME^^-^ 
:>LD HOME WEEK COMMITTEE, PROVIDEI^ 







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Providence 




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he Call of the Waves 

at Narragansett Pier 

Leave the hot, crowded city and enjoy a cool, dustless ride over the 

SEA VIEW TROLLEY 

to this famous resort, t^. ^ c^ ri~».i' • i ttt- ii 

pronounced by all the A^mcst Surf Bathing in the World 

Ride through the beautiful Narragansett country, teeming w^ith historic 
points of mterest. 

Round Trip $1.00 

Tickets at Hall & Lyon's Stores and Gladdmg's, Elmwood Avenue. 

Cars leave City Hall half hourly. 

Through Express Cars leave Providence City Hall, 10.18a. m., 4.18 p. m. 

Ol^D HOME WEEK or any other week is not complete without this trip. 



Sea Vie\v Railroad Co. 



A. E. JACKMAN. Gen'l Mgr. 



No. 6 CHEAP3IDE. 1805- 1( 



Not the Original Store 



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Oldest Dry Goods Store in U. S. 



The Store of Quality of Rhode Island 



The Colonial Store with Twentieth Century Ideas. 

WESTMINSTER AND MATHEWSON STREETS, PROVIDENCE 



OFFICIAL SOUVENIR AND PROGRAM 



Incorporated 1801 



National Exchange Bank 



63 Westminster Street 
PROVIDENCE, R. I. 

Capital $500,000 

Stockholders' Liability . . 500,000 
Surplus and Profits . . . 900,250 

Checking Accounts 

Savings Department 

Certificates of Deposit 

Travelers' Cheques 

For over 106 years this Bank 



Has Not Passed a Dividend 



INTEREST ALLOWED ON DAILY BALANCES 



A% Savings Accounts earn interest at this rate, A% 
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Table of Contents 



The Origin of Old Home Week 

Old Home Week in Rhode Island . 

The Meaning of a Carnival 

A Little Page of American History 

The Rhode Island School of Design 

The Pendleton Collection 

Industrial Opportunities of Providence 



Frank W. Rollins 

Mary Buel 

Claude Perrin 

John Strong 

Elsie Reasoner RalpK 

. George Wheeler 

. Josiah Bowditch 



THE OFFICIAL PROGRAM 

Old Times and Old Buildings .... Wilfred H. Munro 

The Metropolitan Park System of Greater 

Providence Henry A. Barker 

Things about Providence that People do not Know James Young 

The Providence Board of Trade .... Geo. H. Webb 

Rhode Island as a Summering Place . . Frederick Hunt 

Beacon Lights of Colonial Times . . Clarence S. Brigham 



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ELECTRIC 

LIGHT HEAT POWER 

FOR EVERYBODY 

T the reduced rates for Electric Lighting now in effect, there 
is no storekeeper or householder of moderate means, in the 
City of Providence, who cannot afford to enjoy the advantages 
and the conveniences of electric service. 

Take advantage of the new rates. 

If your premises are wired, this is only a matter of makmg con- 
nection with our service mains. If not, then a necessary preliminary 
will be the wiring of your store or residence, which under modern 
conditions is a comparatively simple matter, and can be done by any 
reliable electrical contractor. If you do not know any such, the 
Narragansett Electric Lighting Company will be glad to send you a 
list of reliable Providence electrical contractors. 

Every Store in Providence that has made any marked success 
is lighted by electricity. Electric light adds greatly to the attractive- 
ness of a store. It is a modern and highly effective instrument for doing 
business. Electric Signs are the very best kind of advertising, 
literally burning your name into the public mind. 

In the Home. Electric Light not only adds to the comforts 
of life, it also imparts tone and an atmosphere of refinement. 

In the Store or Home an electric service means more than 
Electric Light. It means that you can operate Electric Fans in 
the Summer and enjoy many little advantages and conveniences that 
are feasible only to those connected with the system of the Narragan- 
sett Electric Lighting Company. 

An Up-to-date Man must live and do business in an up-to-date 
way. It's a part of his character. At the reduced price for Electric 
Lighting, the best of it is, we can all afford to be up-to-date. 

Drop us a postal— NOW— TO-DAY, or telephone 741 
Union, our representative will call to-morrow. 

Narragansett Electric Ligliting Company 

Union Trust Building PROVIDENCE, R. I. 



RHODE ISLAND OLD HOME WEEK 



llarkfitntt^ QIattal National lank 

20 MARKET SQUARE 
PROVIDENCE, R. I. 

Capital $500,000 

Surplus and Profits, over . 300, 000 

WILLIAM AMES, President 
HERBERT F. HINCKLEY, Vice-President OREN WESTCOTT, Cashier 

NEW ACCOUNTS SOLICITED. Every accommodation 
granted consistent with sound banking. 

DIRECTORS 

William Ames Herbert F. Hinckley Frank W. Matteson Daniel Heckwith 

Edwin M. Dodd C. Moiilton Stone Clias. H. Merriman, .Ir. 



Starkweather & Shepley, Inc. 

(iFA)RGE L. SHEPLEY, President 



Fire, Marine, Casualty and All Other Forms of 

INSURANCE 

FIDELITY AND SURETY BONDS 

17 Custom House Street 
PROVIDENCE, R. /. 



New York, 80-82 William Street Boston, 4 Liberty Square 

Chicago, 159 La Salle Street Paris, 20 Rue Chauchat 



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npHEODORE W. FOSTER & BRO. CO. Established 1873— Thirty-four Years 

BRANCH OFFICES Manufacturing Jewelers and Silversmiths, 

Where sample lines are exhibited I OO Richmond St., PrOvidcnCC, R. I., 

New York City, 13 Maiden Lane. Chicago, 111., The Heyvvorth, Cor. Madison and Wabash Aves. U. 



S. A. 



Kingston, Ontario, Can., 350 King Street 



Alexander 


Geo. L. Claflin 


Brothers 


Company 


WHOLESALE 




GROCERS 


Wholesale and Retail 


Dealers in Foreign and Domestic 
Dried and Green Fruits and Nuts. 


Druggists 


Sole Agents for Claro, Bridal 
Veil and Angelus Flour. 


62 TO 72 


CORNER CUSTOM HOUSE 
AND DYER STREETS 


SOUTH MAIN STREET 


Providence, R. I. 


Providence, R. I. 



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SILVERSMITHS AND GOLDSMITHS 



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WORKS AT PROVIDENCE. R. I. 
New York Warerooms, Fifth Avenue and 36th Street 



Ciltien Cl)urber Co. 

JEWELERS SILVERSMITHS INTERIOR DECORATORS 

^omctljing Sntcrcsttng 

at all times and in every section of our stock. 

Jewelry, Gorham Silverware, Watches, 
Clocks, Art Wares, China, Crystal and 
Gut Class, Furniture, Pictures. 

h is our policy to offer beautiful and unusual pieces not 
generally to be found elsewhere and a visit to our store 
is never without interest. 

Our standard of quality is everywhere recognized 
a comparison of prices is invited. 

Westminster aiiD e^titbeUison ^treet0 




OFFICIAL SOUVENIR AND PROGRAM 



Brown & Sharpe 
Mfg. Co. 

PROVIDENCE, R. I., U. S. A. 




MANUFACTURERS OF 

MACH INE TOOLS 
MACHINISTS' TOOLS 
AND CUTTERS 

We extend a cordial invitation to all 
those interested in modern machine 
shop practice to visit our works. 



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Slater Trust Compan)^ 



1855 



PAWTUCKET 



1907 



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For 52 years the history of this bank has been one of conservative gr 
It transacts a General Banking Business, 
Receives Savings Accounts, 
Acts as Trustees, Guardian of Estates 
and in other similar capacities. 



owth. 



F. A. Sayles, 

President. 



H. W. FiTz, 

Vice-President. 



A. E. Jknlk.^, 

Treasurer. 



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One of Rhode Island's 
Greatest Prides 

is the model brewing plant ot the Providence Brewing Company. 
Here is brewed the exquisite BOHEMIAN BEER, noted not 
only for the hygienic cleanliness of its manufacture, but also for 
the sterling purity and nutritive qualities of its ingredients. 

Bohemian S^oer 

represents the highest perfection in the art ^nd science of brewing 
and is recognized and endorsed throughout the whole New 

/Vii^^^^i At',/ England States as 

Neiv England's Finest 

It is the crowning deliglit of the Colonial Festivities 
DON'T MISS IT 






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The Providence Brewing Co. 



Providence, R. I. 



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Hope Webbing 
Company 

Manufacturers of 

Narrow 
Woven 
Fabrics 

Factory and Principal Office 

1005 MAIN STREET 
PAWTUCKET, R. I. 

P. O. Address, Providence, R. I. 



FENNER H. PECKHAM. President 
JOSEPH BELFIELD, Vice-President 
CHARLES SISSON, Treasurer 
OSCAR A. STEERE, Superintendent 
WILLIS H. WHITE. Secretary and Asst.Treas. 






The 

Congdon & Carpenter 
Co. 

Founded by JOSEPH CONGDON 
previous to May, 1 790 

Dealers in Iron, Metals, 
Heavy Hardware, Sad- 
dlery Goods, Paints, Oils 
and Varnishes. 



Gallivan & O'Donnell 

INSURANCE 



48 CUSTOM HOUSE STREET 

Providence, R. I. 



American Plan 



European Plan 



Benedict House 



C. p. BARTLETT 



Proprietor 



BROAD AND MAIN STREETS 
Pawtucket, R. 1. 



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JOHN A. 
GAMMONS 

Insurance 

OF EVERY DESCRIPTION 

Union Trust Co. Bldg. 

Providence 


############## 


Compliments of 

Narra^ansett 
Hotel 

D. B. Hall, Proprietor 







Wan0feucfe Company 



PROVIDENCE, R. I. 



Worsteti puttings 



METCALF BROS. & CO. 



SELLING AGENTS 



57 and 59 Worth Street 



NEW YORK, N. Y. 




Dismay in the Clam Family 

Jiy courtfun of 'ihf .loiniinl 




Photo by Ftrnik E. Dodge 



Rhode Island State Capitol 




Official 



Souvenir and Program 



Rhode Island 
Old Home Week 

July 28— August 3, 1907 




The Origin of Old Home Week 



BY 




FRANK W. ROLLINS* 



HP] PUKPOSE of this 
new festival, iiuuigur- 
ated in New Hanii)shire 
in the year 1890 and 
designated "Old Home 
Week," was to win 
back, if possible, some 
of the wealth whicli the 
State, with its New 
Elngland neighl)ors. had 
lavished on the newer 



( I [ parts of the country in the persons 
' *"'. of sturdy, undaunted, resourcefvd men 
y and women. I had watched with 

i"^ grave consideration the decimation 



of oui hill towns by the drawing away 
of our brightest and best to fields 
wliere they thought they had a great- 
er o])])ortunity and it was in the en- 
tleavor to stop this loss and bring 
back some of those who had gone away 
that 1 hit uiM)n the plan of "Old Home 
A\'eek." There have been, of course, 
I'ounions since the beginning of time, 
but my plan differed from the ordi- 
nary reunion in that it was to occupy 
a week in each year, was to be at a 
fixed ]ieriod each year so that each 
one could make his plans to be back, 
and was to be recognized by the State 



*Eo,xoK-s NoT.-The Honorable.Frank West H"|{>n- S''i;^^^"C[ hL^:;:;'sl"^:'ll^ TJis/'nTJ^. 
inator of the Old Home Week idea. S^^ce 't^ fi^rf estabh hment m ^^^^ ^^^^ _^.^^^. Ohio., Ala- 




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as a permanent festival. In the words 
''Old Home Week" is presented the 
essence of the idea and that it has 
appealed to the best sentiments of 
hundred of thousands of people and 
that it has brought liot only thousands 
of people back to our state, but 
millions of money, is a fact. There 
is no sentiment in human life so 
strong as the home sentiment, and 
the love for the place where one 
was born never fades and never 
disappears as long as life lasts. 

In organizing this festival it was 
hoped that some might come back 
to the old homes to remain; that 
others might return for the reunion 
season, and perhaps choose here a 
spot on which the vacation home at 
least might be established; that still 
others and of course the larger part, 
might come home for a day or two and 
by their coming give pleasure to 
those of kin or acquaintance who 
had not joined in the wanderings to 
the fertile plains and golden mountains. 
The message, "Come home," travelled 
literally with the swiftness of the 
lightning; for the great news agencies 
sent it to the extremes of the news- 
paper-making field and even to foreign 
hinds. The interest created by this 
simple reminder of the old home was 
instantaneous and far reaching and 
the most enthusiastic believers in 
the proposed festival w^ere amazed 
by the results as measured by its 
influence both upon the absent ones 
and upon those at home. Permanent 
benefits have followed in the more 
hopeful view of existing conditions 
and the great pride in the achieve- 
ments of men and women of New 
Hampshire birth. 

The beacon fires upon peak and 
hilltop blazed forth the signal that 



the new festival had been inaugurated. 
A week later rockets flashed the mes- 
sage that it was at an end. Filling 
to the utmost the days and nights 
which intervened were deeply im- 
pressive services in the churches on 
Sunday and joyous reunions in homes 
and in public gatherings on week 
days. ^lusic helped to make reunion 
happy and merry and the bands and 
the singers gave first place to the 
things which most vividly recalled 
the days of long ago. The celebra- 
tions took many forms, from the 
family gathering of forty persons to 
welcome the uncle who had gone to 
the Pacific as a "Forty-niner" and 
had not turned his face eastward 
until he had heard the Old Home 
Week call, to the central city cele- 
bration costing thousands of dollars 
and providing most generous enter- 
tainment for twenty thousand visit- 
ors. Beside the ocean, in the cooling 
shades of hillside graves, under the 
whispering pines of the lake shores, 
greetings were spoken and treasured 
friendships of other years were re- 
newed. What New Hampshire has 
been, and is, and is to be, was demon- 
strated by spoken word, by generous 
act, by manifest purpose. 

The town of Boscawen marked 
with beautiful tablets of enduring 
bronze the spots which link this pic- 
turesque, agricultural community with 
great events and great names in 
history. Under broad spreading elms 
stands the fine, old residence in which 
John A. Dix was born and from which 
he went forth to a career of patriotic 
statesmanship which made his one 
of the best known names of the Civil 
War period. In this same mansion 
Daniel Webster opened his first law 
office in March, 1805. This old house, 



RHODE ISLAND OLD HOME WEEK 



17 



thus doubly distinguished, has at 
each side of the broad walk leading 
to its front door a granite shaft with 
bronze tablet setting forth the facts 
that here Dix was born and here 
Webster first practiced law. Another 
tablet was erected at the birthplace 
of William Pitt Fessenden, who had 
received his bachelor's degree from 
Bowdoin College before he was six- 
teen; who was one of the foremost 
members of the United States Senate 
during those eventful years 1854-1864 
and who succeeded 
Salmon P. Chase as 
Secretary of the 
Treasury in Presi- 
dent Lincoln's cabi- 
net. The site of the 
first fort, 1739. "one 
hundred feet sqiuire, 
built of hewn logs," 
has its designating 
tablet as have the 
site of the first Con- 
gregational meeting- 
house in the town, 
built A. D. 1769, and 
the residence of Rev. 
Samuel Wood, D. D., 
graduate from Dart- 
mouth College 1779, 
Congregational min- 
ister in Boscawen 
1781-1836, and the 
tutor of Daniel Web- 
ster and his brother Ezekial. Of later 
date but none the less esteemed by 
Boscawen folk, Charles Carlcton Coffin 
and Governor Moody Cui'rier had 
recognition by the erection of tablets 
at the places of their birth. 

The spot upon which the first re- 
ligious service was held in the present 
state capital. May, 15, 1726, has been 
marked by a granite shaft, in testimony 




Frank W. Rollins, 

Elx-Governor of New Hampshire 



to the fact that upon the enduring 
foundations of an intelligent religious 
faith, and a general diffusion of knowl- 
edge among the people, the little 
plantation of Penacook has risen 
to the flourishing city of Concord 
and become the capital of a sovereign 
American state. The generosity of 
a public man of a neighboring state 
has i^laccd upon the house in Amherst 
in which Horace Greeley was born 
a plate of metal, suitably inscribed. 
Numerous other instances might be 
given illustrating 
how interest in local 
history awakened by 
Old Home Week has 
taken form. 

T h e oratory o f 
Old Home Week 
added riches to the 
already abundant 
stores of the liter- 
ature about New 
Hampshire. Some 
o f the most e 1 o- 
quent voices of our 
present day were 
heard in her praises 
in these Old Home 
festivals and sweet 
singers paid their 
tributes in verse to 
the grandeur o f 
her scenery, the love- 
liness of her valleys, 
tlie \irtues and valor of her people. 
Pride in the record of what has been 
achieved and confidence in what the 
future has in store, had equal pro- 
minence in the spoken and written 
considerations of the Okl Home 
theme. One speaker condensed a 
large amoimt of truth in a very 
few words when he said: "We are 
rich in history and biograi)hy, yet 



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woefully wanting in our preservation 
of them. We have no history tell- 
ing the story as it should be told. 
Our school children learn of Bunker 
Hill and Gettysburg, but they learn 
nothing" of what New Hampshire 
did there." Said another orator, after 
reviewing the present conditions in 
the state: "This is the New Hamp- 
shire which welcomes you to your old 
homes, a state of resourceful men and 
women; a state with varied indus- 
tries; a state which, should occasion 
arise, would furnish another Langdon 
to pledge his future for the cause 
of liberty, another Stark to organize 
and lead his troops to victory, an- 
other Miller to respond with 'I'll 
try, sir,' to the question whether he 
could take the enemies' battery, and 
another Pillsbury to champion the 
cause of the oppressed." The learned 
president of Dartmouth College pre- 
dicted permanency for Old Home 
Week, "because the custom rests 
upon the principle that every state 
holds sovereignty not simply over 
its own soil but over its kindred wher- 
ever they may go and under such 
sovereignty, has the right to summon 
every one who was born of its loins 
to come back to the old home." 
One speaker voiced the sentiments 
of all loyal sons and daughters when 
he said: "I have seen at their best 
the states of this Union, but I have 
nowhere found greener fields and 
pastures, more fascinating forests, 
more limpid brooks, more melodious 
birds, clearer skies, or more gorgeous 
sunsets than here." Others made 
prominent in their addresses the fact 
that memory was the strongest senti- 
ment on which to predicate success for 
Old Home Week. 



How Old Home Week visits brought 
tangible results in many known in- 
stances, is illustrated by the follow- 
ing: A gentleman who had attained 
eminence in the legal profession in 
one of the great cities accepted the 
local committee's invitation to visit 
the town of his birth and be the Old 
Home Day orator. After the exer- 
cises, he accepted a friend's in- 
vitation to drive over to the old farm, 
to see again the house in which he 
had been born and from which he had 
followed father and mother, brother 
and sister, to their last resting places 
in the little burying ground at the 
foot of the hill. Looking out from 
the door-yard upon the picture of 
mountain and valley which had been 
so familiar in boyhood, but which 
had never seemed half so beautiful 
before, he forgot the great city, the 
costly home, the ceaseless activities 
of his profession, the countless de- 
mands of society. He was at home 
once more, and then the new holiday 
impressed its fullest significance upon 
him. To possess the place of his birth, 
quickly became an overmastering 
desire and before he slept that night 
he had bargained for its purchase. 
Some regained possession of former 
estates; others found more desirably 
located places, but rich in associa- 
tions of neighborhood or township. 
Those who could not buy, rented for 
the summer. Those who could not 
rent, came as summer boarders and 
with their friends not to the manner 
born, but contented, even without 
the Old Home ties to help make them 
so. A banker in a western city sent 
a hundred cherry trees from a nursery 
to his native town, with instructions 
that they be set out beside the road 



RHODE ISLAND OLD HOME WEEK 



19 



as an object lesson in thrift as against 
waste of land and to make a vicinity 
attractive to birds and boys, "with- 
out either of which," he said, "the 
good old state cannot attain the full 
measure of prosperity." 

The spirit of enterprise which grew 
out of the anticipated home comings 
had many illustrations. In one of 
the smaller towns the cemetery behind 
the old church had been neglected 
more and more each year. But 
with the expectancy of w^elcoming 
again the absent sons and daughters 
of the town, came a sense of remiss- 
ness in duty to the dead. Scores of 
willing workers built a rustic bridge 
across a ra\-ine, cleared away the 
bushes, cut the grass, made paths, 
set out shrubs and plants, and closed 
the day by holding a meeting at 
which an association was organized. 
Voluntary contributions placed sev- 
eral hundred dollars in the treasury 
as the nucleus of a permanent fund. 

After the celebration in a little 
town of Cheshire county, the home- 
comers gathered" for a few minutes 
about one of the old homesteads and 
spoke of the real pleasure the day 
had afforded them. It was a repre- 
sentative company of sons and 
daughters who had gone out into the 
world to make their fortunes and 
had succeeded in their undertakings. 
One had held high office in the old 
Bay State; another had achieved fame 
as an author; and so on through the 
list. All felt the inspiration the day 
had given them. Across the street 
stood^the old church in which all 
had worshipped in childhood. It 
was as well preserved as the majoritv 



of the meeting-houses in rural com- 
numities, but the frost-fingers of 
winter and the inching touches of 
midsummer's noonday sun had left 
their marks u))on the jjaint. "Let 
us paint the old meeting-house," 
said one. Another quickly doffed his 
hat and beginning with a goodly 
colli iil)iit ion from his own pocket, 
passed from one to another of the 
company. No "collection" of the 
the ohl time church-going days had 
ever been more generously or more 
gladly taken. Funds sufficient to 
paint the l>i;ilding inside and outside, 
with a sur])lus with which to place a 
few jiictures ujion the vestry walls, 
were placed in the hands of the sur- 
])iised but grateful conmiittee that 
night before the stage was taken for 
the railway station a half dozen miles 
away. 

Ilundi'eds who could not return, 
sent ex])ressions of interest of one sort 
or another. One of the most touch- 
ing examples of the way in which 
heart-strings were ])layed upon by 
home spirit was afforded by the ex- 
perience of a young New Hampshire 
missionary in the extreme northwest. 
Much to his surprise, in nearly every 
camp he visited he found some one 
from the far-olf Granite State who 
had reatl of Old Home Week and 
was anxious to hear more about it. 
Rugged, weather-bronzed toilers of the 
mines and the forests talked of the 
homes of their boyhood back on the 
New Hampshire hills and expressed 
in unmistakable terms their love for the 
old scenes and their great desire to 
look once more upon places endear- 
ed to them by tenderest memories. 




Old Home Week in Rhode Island 

BY 

MARY BUEL 



limited a space of time and the present 
Old Home Week is the natural result 
of both of these causes. 

The first suggestion for an Old 
Home Week was made by Fred- 
erick W. Aldred, a young business 
man of Providence, who is actively 
interested in anything pertaining to 
the public life of the city and who 
is at present the Secretary on the 
Executive Committee for the cele- 
bration. By dint of active canvass- 
ing he secured the co-operation of a 
dozen or more prominent citizens 
of the city and early in April an 
informal meeting was held at the 
office of the Mayor at ' which the 
Mayor himself presided. At this 
meeting it was unanimously decided 
to hdi,ld the celebration under the 
name of the "Providence Old Home 
Week," and although several partici- 
pants at the meeting believed that 
such an enterprise was essentially an 
affair to be undertaken as well as 
enjoyed by the whole State, it was 
believed that time did not suffice to 
perfect an organization bevond the 
City. 

A few days after this, a second 
meeting was held at the City Hall, 
which was a large and enthusiastic 
one. Many men of importance in the 
financial, religious, literary and social 
world of the city were present, and 
notable speeches were made, all of 
them voicing the old home week idea, 
and what it means to a community. 
Business men representing wide and 
various interests signified their will- 
ingness to serve on different commit- 
tees and to work to promote the 
interests of the affair. A number 
of tentative plans were suggested 
and many were later adopted, and 



HAT an Old 
Home Week 
celebration can 
grow from a small 
affair of many 
limitations into a 
large festival of 
almost limitless 
proportions has 
been fully proved in the Old Home 
Week of Rhode Island, which com- 
mences July 28th and lasts until 
August 3rcl. Its beginning was modest 
and the first work done in arranging 
for it was along local lines that were 
far from ambitious. 

Now, in its scope, in its wide 
reaching influence, in the elaborate 
program it will present, it is by far 
the largest and most noteworthy 
Old Home Week yet held in any 
Eastern State. That it has aroused 
the present degree of enthusiasm 
proves conclusively two things — 
first, that those who have been interest- 
ed in this movement have put into 
it their best efforts, and second, that 
Providence and. in fact, Rhode Island 
too, nuist have had need of just such 
a celebration to arouse civic pride and 
local enthusiasm. 

No other reasons than these could 
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21 



from this time on the Old Home 
Week project may be said to have 
sailed ahead on fairly smooth waters. 

Frequent meetings were held and 
at the end of a few weeks the present 
Executive Committee had been ap- 
pointed. 

At its head, as Chairman, is Marsden 
J. Perry, who is one of the foremost 
citizens of Providence and of Rhode 
Island. He is a man of broad ideas 
and of great public spirit and he is 
identified with nearly all of the 
largest and best 
interests of the 
city, whether 
they be com- 
mercial or phil- 
anthropic. His 
name spells 
^'Success," and 
his acceptance 
of the Chairman- 
ship of the Old 
Home Week 
Committee, 
meant to many 
the success of 
the celebration. 
From the very 
beginning his in- 
terest has been 
keen and no de- 
tails have been 
too trivial to 
occupy his time 
and attention. 
To him, more 
than to any 
other," is due the 
successful result 
that gives Provi- 
dence her pre- 
sent position as one of the great 
hostesses of the country. 

The Hon. P. J. McCarthy, who is 
the first Vice-Chairman of The Execu- 
tive Committee as well as the Mayor 
of Providence, has been one of the 
most untiring workers for Old Home 
Week. From its commencement his 
enthusiasm was infectious and in 
whatever direction the Committee 
has required his services they have 
iDeen freelv given. He is a well 




Marsden 

Chairman of the Old 



known member of tiie Rliode Island 
Bar and is a man of inde])eiident 
views in politics, as well as in other 
matters, and he has the distinction 
of having l^een elected largely by 
a non-])artisan vote. 

Of the other Vice-Chairmen with 
whom .Ml-. Perry has surrounded him- 
self, all arc men closely associated 
with the large affairs of the city and 
each one has brought special ability 
to his particular department. 

Jesse II. Metcalf is the treasurer 
of one of the 
largest manu- 
facturing inter- 
ests in the city. 
He is one of the 
trustees and 
directors of the 
R. I. School of 
Design and is 
also a mem])er 
of the Rhode 
Island legisla- 
ture. 

I' rank O. Field 
is another lead- 
ing merchant 
and is the Presi- 
dent of the Provi- 
dence Board of 
Trade, one of the 
oldest institu- 
tions of its sort 
in the country. 
H a r o 1 d J. 
Gross finds time 
to do many 
things, for be- 
sides being an 
active member 
of one of the 
largest real estate firms in the city, he 
is the Chairman of the Republican 
State Central Committee, a member 
of the Providence Board of Police 
Commissioners, and is well known 
in militarv circles, being a Colonel 
in the First Light Infantry Regiment. 
George L. Shepley, Ex-Lieutenant- 
Governor, is a director of several 
banks and trust companies and the 
senior partner of the firm of Stark- 
weather and Shepley. 



J. Perry, 

Home Week Committee 



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Hon. p. J. McCarthy Jesse H. Metcalf 
Vice-chairman Vice-Chairman 



Frank O. Field 
Vice-Chairman 



Harold J. Gross 
Vice-Chairman 



George L. Shepley 
Vice-Chairman 



Arthur H. Watson is a leading 
merchant and is also a Colonel on 
the staff of General Tanner. On 
the Old Home Week committees he 
has served in several capacities and 
has been one of the right hand men 
of its Chairman. 

The Historian for Old Home Week 
is Clarence H. Brigham. He has been 
Librarian of the Rhode Island Histori- 
cal Society for several years. Despite 
the fact that all these ^'ice-Chairmen 
are busy men they have found much 
time to give to promoting the interest 
of the celebration. 

Col. George H. Webb, Director in 
Chief, is the Secretary of the Provi- 
dence Board of Trade, and State 
Commissioner of Industrial Statis- 
tics. He has brought into his work 
on the Old Home Week Committee, 
much active interest and executive 
ability and has clone much to perfect 
the organization. 

Frederick ]\I. Rhodes, Assistant Di- 
rector is also Assistant Secretarv 



of the Board of Trade, and is a man 
who is noted for his attention to 
details. His work on the Committee 
has been useful and varied. 

The only man on the Old Home 
Week Committee, who is not a 
resident of Providence is Charles H. 
Rollins, of Boston, whose uncle, ex- 
Governor Rollins of New Hampshire 
was the originator of the first Old 
Home Week idea. His work as Assist- 
ant Director, has been particularly 
helpful, in regard to decorations 
and the details connected with the 
various pageants. 

The one woman who holds a position 
on the Executive Committee is Mrs. 
Elsie Reasoner Ralph, whose position 
as Director of Publicity is quite 
unusual. She also is a non-resident 
of Providence, and came from New 
York to take charge of tliis depart- 
ment. Although a yovmg woman, 
she has already gained an enviable 
reputation for her "Publicity Work" 
in expositions in this country and 




Henry A. Barker John A. Gammons Charles Alexander Wilfred H. Munro Herbert S. Tanner 

Chairman, Publicity Chairman, Entertain- Chairman, Reception Chairman, Historic, Chairman, Military, 

and Publications ment and Sporls and Invitation Patriotic and Edu- Civic and Trades 

Committee Committee Committee cational Committee Committee 



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23 




Arthur H. Watson 
Vice-Chairman 



J. Herhkkt Foster J. Edward Sti uley 
Vice-Chairman and Treasurer 

Chairman Finance 
Committee 



Oeorc.e H. WeIU! 
Director 



Frederick W. Aldred 
Secretary 



abroad, and she is also known as an 
able magazine writer. She had the 
distinction of being the only woman 
war correspondent in the late Spanish 
War. To Providence she brought 
an amount of youthful enthusiasm 
that has more than once been the 
saving clause of a situation, and an 
active mind for suggestions and ideas. 
Her work on the Committee has been 
valuable and appreciated. 

The important office of Treasurer 
of this celebration is held by J. Edward 
Studley, one of the best known men 
in financial circles in Providence. 
He is the President of the Union 
Trust Company and is a director in 
many other financial enterprises. 

The Assistant Treasurer, Mr. Frank 
E. Chafee, has had much of the arduous 
work in the handling of the finances 
of the Committee. He occupies the 
position of Assistant Treasurer of 
the Union Trust Company. 



Of the nine chairmen, the list is 
headed by J. Herbert Poster, Chair- 
man of the Finance Committee. As 
such he has had charge of the col- 
lecting of subscriptions. Mr. Foster 
is a well known cotton broker, and a 
prominent member of many of the 
local clubs. 

Henry A. Barker, Chairman of the 
Publicity Conunittee, is identified 
witli many of the public movements 
for beautifying and for promoting the 
welfare of the City and State. His 
interest in the establishment of the 
Metropolitan Park System is well 
known, and he has brought into the 
Old Home Week the same sort of in- 
terest for its success 

The Chairman on Entertainments 
and Sports is John A. Gammons, one 
of the greatest athletes that Brown 
Univeisity has graduated in recent 
years. He is known as a football and 
baseball expert' and his fondness for 




Osmond H. Bkiogs William H. Thurber H. Anthony Dyer Elsie Reasoner Ralph Clarence S. Brigham 
Chairman, Transporta- Chairman, Merchants' Chairman, Committee Publicity Director Historian 

tion Committee Committee on Decoration 



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Frank E. Chaffee 



sports of all 
sorts particu- 
larly fits him 
for his present 
position. 

Charles 
Alexan de r , 
Chairman of 
Reception and 
I nvi t a t i o n 
Com mi 1 1 e e 
has a respons- 
ible position Charles 
Asst. Treasurer dlU'lng tllC '^'"' 

Home Week festivities, but the enter- 
taining of distinguished guests that 
will fall upon him is a task which 
he is well qualified to perform. He 
is a man of much leisure and wide 
acquaintance. 

H. Anthony Dyer, the Chairman 
of the Committee on Decorations is 
a member of one of the most famous 
old Rhode Island families and a well 
known artist. He has brought into 
his work many ideas that are new and 
attractive and to him the city largely 
owes its artistic scheme of decora- 
tion for this celebration. 

Few men are better fitted to occupy 
the position of Chairman of the His- 
toric, Patriotic and Educational Com- 
mittee than Wilfred H. Munro, one of 
the professors of Brown University. 
He is a writer of note and his know- 
ledge of things and people historic 
is well known. 

Herl^ert S. Tanner, General of the 
State Militia, is Chairman of the 
Military, Civic and Trades Committee, 
and a man who has long been con- 
nected with the military affairs of 
the State. He is also prominent as 
a business man. 

Osmond H. Briggs, Chairman of 
Transportation, is a man who has long 
been connected with one of the largest 
railroad interests in New Eng- 
land. His work in arranging rates 
and time-cards for the Old Home 
Week celebration has been of great 
value. 

Mr. William H. Thurber, Chairman 
of the Merchants Committee is a mem- 
ber of the Tilden-Thurber Company, 
which has often been spoken of as the 
"Tiffany of Providence." His work 
in interesting the merchants of the 





city has been 
of great assis- 
tance, and he 
has been in- 
strumental in 
arranging for 
the numerous 
beautiful and 
costly prizes 
which are to 
be given to 
those who 

H.Rollins COmpete iu ppp-n^^.^v M r w „.,. - 
Director rREr^ERicK M. Rhodes 

the sports of Asst. Director 

the Carnival Days of this Festival. 

So much for those who have worked 
for the Old Home Week idea. Since 
its beginning its scope has been 
enlarged and the first Providence 
affair has been expanded to the larger 
and more important function of Rhode 
Island Old Home Week. The merg- 
ing of one into the other was ac- 
complished by the unanimous co- 
operation of the Committee, heartily 
endorsed by Gov. Higgins and Mayor 
McCarthy. 

Early in June a mass meeting was 
held at which several ex-Governors, 
President Faunce of Brown Univer- 
sity, Speaker Burchard of the House 
of Representatives and several others 
made eloquent addresses endorsing the 
new idea. This was immediately 
adopted and from that time on, all the 
work has been on a broader and more 
comprehensive scale. Many of those 
whose interest in it had at the begin- 
ning been of a luke-warm character, 
now took a more active part, and 
there has scarcely been a hamlet in 
Rhode Island that has not evinced 
its gratification at this latest move. 
As it now stands the celebration will 
be a dignified function, made notable 
by the interest taken in it by its 
prominent citizens both of state and 
city and by the presence here of many 
who have won fame and distinction 
outside their boundaries. 

It is expected to appeal to old 
and young alike from the side of 
sentiment as well as from more com- 
mercial reasons. Providence has pre- 
pared a royal welcome for all her 
visitors, whether they be "home 
comers" or strangers and the pass word 
from now on is "What Cheer." 




The Meaning of a Carnival 



BY 



CLAUDE PERRIN. 




¥ fondest memory, 
a Carnival stands to 
the initiated for a 
joyous festival of al- 
most limitless pro- 
portions; a pro- 
longed play hour 
with a plentiful pro- 
vision of toA^s; a 
period when old as 
well as young may, with dignity, 
enter into the spiiit of the occasion 
and for a little time, at least, cast aside 
the usual weight of every day responsi- 
bilities and give themselves over to 
careless pleasures. Such, at any rate, 
is the idea of the Carnivals of the 
old world, the very thought of whicli is 
enough to call a retrospective smile to 
the lips and a sparkle to the eye of 
those who are familiar with them. The 
mere memory of tliem with their wealth 
of flowers, their riot of color, their 
laughter, their songs and often their 
simple sports, is an unfailing source 
of delight. 

Those who have witnessed or who 
have participated in the Carnivals at 



Nice or at Monte Carlo can never 
forget the absolute abandon and the 
almost childlike joy with which most 
of the frequenters of these resorts 
^ive themselves over to it. Every- 
thing evokes enthusiasm and nothing 
is too trival to please. Applause is 
spontaneous; laughter comes easily 
and fatigue and ennui are apparently 
unknown. In crowded Paris, the 
workaday world gives way to the 
spirit of the Carnival. The boule- 
vards, squares, and public places are 
filled with a happy-go-lucky crowd, 
singing, dancing, exchanging wit- 
ticisms, throwing flowers and con- 
fetti ami generally disporting them- 
selves like a throng of merry children 
out for a holiday. 

ICven Rome, the Eternal City of 
Majesty and History, the placidity 
of whose people is seldom unbroken, 
even Rome, once in each twelve 
months gives itself over to the in- 
toxication and delirium of the Carnival. 
During the three days preceding Ash 
Wednesday a new and foreign atmo- 
sphere is abroad, The old and dig- 



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nified Rome is lost sight of; is gone; 
and a youthful, flower-crowned city 
takes its place. Venice, too, at each 
carnival season, is recrowned the 
queen of the Adriatic and takes 
on new and more excjuisite beau- 
ties. Here the world is more 
delicately attuned ; the laughter 
is softer; the music more 
gentle. It is a carnival 
of myriads of twinkling 
lights, of love songs and 
mystery. 
So much for these pleasure 
times of the Latin races, which 
have become as much a part 
of their yearly life as are the 
great festivals of church and 
state. In our own country we 
are not without the Carnival 
spirit; and wherever the 
French tongue is spoken there 
is apt to be a yearly celebra- 
tion which is its exponent. 
Under the name "Mardi Gras," 
New Orleans holds one each 
winter and the same idea is 
carried out in the "^■eiled 
Prophet" festival which 
held in St. Louis. 
Each celebration 
is individual in its 
way and they do 
much in keeping 
these cities in the 
public lime-hght. 
Of the two the 
New Orleans 
Mardi Gras is the 
older and perhaps 
more widely 
known. At this 
time. New Orleans 
is the hostess to 
thousands of 
guests from Maine 
to California. It 



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27 



is a great event and it is a heautit'ul 
spectacle, as well. Her most promi- 
nent citizens lend it their support 
and aid and her ])rettiest dehutant is 
chosen as the Carnival (Jueen. All 
the details of these functions ai'o 
most carefully thought out and one 
is scarcely over })efore plans for the 
coming year are being considei'ed. 
The many parades, particularly those 
at night, are elaborate and gorgeous 
pageants, and the balls which follow 
are the most brilliant of the New 
Orleans season. In 8t. Louis the 
arrangements for their Veiled Prophet 
celebration are almost the same, but 
it will be many years before this 
festival attains the classic jiosition 
held by the southern city. 

In all of these cities the decorations 
form no small part of their attrac- 
tions during Carnival Time, as they 
are invariably elaborate and beautiful. 
Occasionally a scheme of color, ])ink 
and rose, yellow and green, or what- 
ever combination it nuiy be is carried 
out in the smallest details. Flowers, 
hangings, lights, all are made to con- 
form to the prevailing tone, the effect 
being charming. 

This is particularly true of Nice. 
There so elaborate are their ariange- 
ments that each day sees a different 
color even to the fires that burn along 
the Esplanade. Arches, trimmed with 
flowers, or himg with graceful festoons 
are nearly alwa^^s to be seen and a 
perfect colonade, through the jM-inci- 
pal street, has more than once been 
done with stunning results. 

At night there are alwaA's lights and 
e\erywhere. Sometimes the}' are 
hung in long lines, making an un- 
broken vista, apparently endless. 
Sometimes they are arranged in 
intricate designs almost fairy-like in 
their delicate tracerv. But whatever 



tlie idea, color or 
general scheme it is 
only one more fea- 
ture to charm the 
eye and make one 
forgot the hum- 
(h'um side of life. 

It has been left 
foi- Rhode Island. 
the smallest state 
in the Union, to 
inaugurate a Cai'ii- 
ival which will be 
along lines foreign 
in some particulars 
to any yet held. 
Its name, "Colon- 
nial Carnival" sug- 
gests what it is in- 
tended to portray, 
namely the gaiety 
and dash of the 
South with a touch 
of the Puritanism, 
that is the bone and 
sinew of the sturdy 
New K n g ! a n d 
States. It will be 
a time when Provi- 
dence as the re- 
presentative of her 
state will welcome all tho.se sons and 
daughters who have been absent either 
from inclination or necessity. The 
city will throw its gates open to state 
and country; to citizen and stranger 
alike: it will don its gala dress and 
will make ready the feast and then it 
will enter into the enjoyment of its 
celebration with all the zest that in- 
variably follows days of work. The 
program that has been prepared for 
the three days that the Carnival will 
last is a large one and it is so varied 
in its character that none should go 
away dissatisfied. In the making of 
its Carnival it will bear compari- 




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son with cities centuries older than 
Providence. With its procession of 
flower-trimmed automobiles, it will 
vie with the flower parades of Nice 
and Monte Carlo. Its public squares 
with their crowds and music might 
suggest the capitol of the French and 
the military parade with its marching 
columns and imiformed officers could 
cpiite as well be a part of the modern, 
martial Rome. Then, too, who will 
dare affirm that the illuminated fes- 



door a bod_Y of water perfect for the 
holding of all aquatic sports that are 
such a large feature of the Carnival. 
There will be yacht races, races be- 
tween crews of naval reserves, rescue 
races, tugs-of-war, swimming contests, 
tests of speed with motor boats and 
tests with the latest and fleetest grey- 
hounds in the way of water craft. By 
night too, as far as eye and ear can 
reach the bay will be brilliant with 
lights and gay with music. It will 




A Decorated Canoe Parade in Rhode Island. 



tiA'al to be held at night on the beauti- 
ful Park Lakes with thousands of 
gleaming, colored lights and phan- 
tom-like canoes will not appeal as 
strongly to the imagination as do the 
lighted gondolas on the canals and 
lagoons of the city of the Doges. 

Providence has all the picturesque 
surroundings that will go to make 
her Colonial Carnival historic. In 
Narragansett Bay she has at her very 



be a spectacle to be seen and remem- 
bered. Roger Williams Park also 
is a noble setting for any amusement 
that can be devised and for the Old 
Time Sports that will take place there 
no Forest of Arden or Richmond Green 
could be more appropriate. Here will 
be seen jousting and tilting tourna- 
ments between modern knights clad 
in ancient armour; games of archery, 
the most picturesque of all the sports; 



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29 



the "Old and very honorable" game 
of bowlino; on the green, and wrestling 
and running matches which are as 
old as the hills but as interesting to 
the youth of to-day as when done 
by Robin Hood and his merry men. 

Of the modern sports there will 
be tennis, golf, baseball, and ])olo, at 
the country clubs in which Providence 
is so rich. For these there are entries 
from beyond the boundaries of the 
State and they promise to bring out 
com])etition of the best sort. The 
regatta to be held on the Seekonk 
River will be an event in the boating- 
world and the automobile races about 
College Hill and the motor cycle races 
at Hills Grove track will all have their 
followers who delight in these sports. 

To show that she is progressive 
and that nothing is too great for her 
to attempt. Providence has inaugu- 
rated the first balloon race e^•er held 
in this country and this will be the 
clou of her Carnival program. It 
is to be given under the auspices of 
the Aero Club of America and the 
participants in it are gentlemen 
amateurs who make a pastime of 
this new and thrilling sport. 

There are a half-dozen or more 
entries of these giant boats of the air, 
each to have its carg-o of human 



freight and the sight as they rise and 
start on their flight will be awe in- 
s))iring. All are monsters in the 
world of air ships and the Leviathian 
of the grouji has been christened the 
Providence. That this ship has the 
best chance for the winning of the 
race is beliexcd and in case it does so 
it will again a])})ear at the great 
International Race to be held in St. 
Louis ill the aut umii. 

The last of the spectacles of the 
Carnival will be the illuminated pa- 
rade whicli will bi-iiig to a close these 
three days of pleasure. For this 
there will I)e lights, flowers, confetti 
and whatever will contribute to such 
an occasion. The ])arade itself will 
bo historic and will show Rhode 
Island in her early da}s when she 
was a struggling state, small in area 
but large in all the princi])les that go 
to the making of a great future. 

Her course along the years will 
l)e followed until one finally comes 
to tlie Rhode Island and the Pro\i- 
dence of to-day, rich, prosperous, 
successful; after this the curtain 
will be rung down, tlie guests will 
dei)art and the city will be left to 
sleep; while the flag that floats from 
her glorious State House will keep 
watch in the darkness. 




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Photograph by John W. Auty 

Portrait of Washington by Gilbert Stuart 

(In the State Capitol, Providence) 



A Little Page of American History 



BY 



JOHN STRONG. 




HE NAME of Rhode 
Island is writ large 
in American History. 
The principles of 
libert}' that now 
guide our govern- 
ment were these set forth by its 
founder. The stirring events tliat 
preceded the formation of the union 
took place within its borders. 

It struck the first successful blow 
for freedom when the citizens of 
Providence captured the Gaspee in 
June 1772. It was first among the 
Colonies to protest publicly against 
taxation without representation and 
sent representatives to England for 
the purpose. The first step and the 
final step in the establishment of our 
government were taken by Rhode 
Island. Providence was the scene of 
the first Colonial Declaration of Inde- 
pendence and two months before the 
delegates of the various Colonies met 
at'Philadelphia to declare their separa- 
tion from the Mother Country, the 
Legislature of Rhode Island met at 
the old State House in Providence and 
formally declared Rhode Island to be a 
sovereign and independent State, yet 
apart. The war of the Re\-olution 
was over and she was the last of all 
the states to sign the Federal Consti- 
tution. 

She was the first to recognize 
religious liberty and to try in a prac- 
tical w^ay the great experiment of 
Separatory Church and State. The 
story of liberty cannot properly be 



written without some reference to the 
"Lively lv\i)eriment" instituted by 
Roger Williams. 

The settlement of Providence stood 
for a definite ideal. It meant some- 
thing to Civilization, for Providence 
stood for freedom of thought when 
freedom was elsewhere unknown. 

Mighty men have had their daily 
walks within the lands now dominated 
by the majestic dome of the new 
Cai)itol. aufl mighty deeds have been 
done within its present sight. 

We might note that the building 
itself is a very conspicuous and noble 
exam])le of the achievements of the 
19th century. It is said that its 
architects and its builders have labored 
upon it with e\ory zeal to make it their 
most notable work, and to produce 
the best of which their great art and 
skill was capable. Such a building as 
this, in one of the old world cities, 
would be marked with three special 
stars in Baedeker's guide book and 
its rotunda and State reception room 
would be admired by throngs of 
worshipping American visitors, as 
examples almost unsurpassed in beau- 
tiful architecture. Perhaps two or 
three stars would also be given to 
Gilbert Stuart's fine painting of Wash- 
ington, which hangs at last amid 
fitting surroundings. 

And who deserves a statue upon 
the marble terrace? Short as is the 
history of this State and but a little 
span in the world's great history, 
has nevertheless been long enough 



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for the principles of its great and 
prophetic founder to extend far be- 
yond the seas. The ambition of 
Roger Williams is announced in his 
own words upon the facade of the 
Capitol: "To set forth a lively ex- 
periment, that a most flourishing 
civil State may stand and best be 
maintained, with full liberty of re- 
ligious concernments." It is astound- 
ing to us now to recall that only such 
a short time ago Uberty of thought 
and freedom to worship as one pleases 
and believes to be right should have 
been universally denied. Roger Wil- 
liams builded even better than he 
knew. No hero of Europe ever set 
forth a more lively experiment, for 
his "Flourishing State" not only has 
maintained itself on this great prin- 
ciple, but the whole nation is con- 
ducted upon this plan, and the voice 
of liberty is calling around the world. 
We can look back to the career of this 
man among his fellow-men with un- 
alloyed delight, for he was upright 
and honest and his dealings with the 
native inhabitants were generous and 
fair; and so Providence not only 
stood for liberty of conscience but it 
stood for justice. 

There will be other pedestals upon 
this terrace that might well be occupied 
by figures of those noble red men, 
whose histories are so worthy; the 
chiefs who made the settlement of 
Roger Williams a possibility, Mian- 
tonomi and Canonicus. Splendid re- 
presentatives they were of the race 
that has almost disappeared before 
the victorious white man. 

A short mile from the western 
windows of the State House stands 
the mansion wherein dwelt the first 
Admiral and Commander-in-chief of 
the American Navy, that versatile 



man, Esek Hopkins, "master mariner, 
politician, brigadier general, naval 
officer and philanthropist." The coun- 
try which has had such a splendid 
Navy as ours, through all these years 
unconquered, need not look to the 
history of any other land for examples 
of warlike achievement. 

From the dome of the State House 
we may look down upon the site of 
Sabin's Inn, where the men of Provi- 
dence organized an expedition one 
June night in 1772 and in long boats 
pulled silently down the river to 
destroy His Majesty's ship, Gaspee. 
To Capt. Whipple belongs the honor 
of leading the first armed expedition 
against a naval vessel of the enemy. 
Large as was the reward offered by 
the British Government for infor- 
mation against anyone who had taken 
part in this expedition, no man in 
Providence was disloyal enough to 
furnish any assistance. The English 
Commander, however, knew well 
enough who the leader was. The his- 
tories record the letter that he wrote 
to him: "You, Abraham Whipple, 
on the 10th of June, 1772, burned 
His Majesty's vessel, the Gaspee, and 
I will hang you at the j'ard arm;" and 
the reply: "Sir James Wallace — 
Always catch a man before you hang 
him." 

At the foot of Capitol Hill, as 
commemorated by the tablet upon 
the Board of Trade building, the 
people of Providence effectively pro- 
tested against unjust taxation by 
dumping cargoes of tea into the river. 
Scarcely beyond our vision, in the 
old colonial city down the bay, dwelt 
two other men whose names will 
always live in the annals of our Navy, 
and one of them should be no less 
honored in Japan, which he opened 



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General Nathaniel Green 

(From an old mezzotint published m 1785. now in the possession of Mr. Edward 1. N.ckerson) 



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to modern civilization. Upon the 
hill to the left is old University Hall, 
where once were quartered the French 
^allies of the struggling Republic, and 
half way down the hill we can see the 
hotel where Washington had been 
'entertained and where Lafayette was 
■once more received when he revisited 
these shores after half a century had 
passed. 

There is another who should be 
honored, lest it be said that States are 
ungrateful. The nation has not been 
forgetful of liim, for there is a fine 
equestrian statue in Washington, and 
the memorial at Savannah bears tes- 
timony to the admiration of Georgia 
for our great General. Nathaniel 
Green. He who was called the "Sav- 
iour of the South," who, in command 
of the Continental army was next to 
Washington and whose military genius 
has had few equals since time began, 
has never yet been honored by his 
own State. His splendid career is 
inspiration for some great artist's 
work. It is a shame and almost a 



disgrace that Rhode Island has so 
long neglected to pay tribute to his 
memory. 

And let us not forget that in more 
modern days there was one who was 
the idol of Rhode Island and whose 
memory should not suffer because 
financial reverses came to him in the 
midst of his public-spirited career. 
From the hill on which now stands our 
marble hall, with its superb white dome 
rising against the sky like a fairy 
palace, one might have heard, in the 
days of '61, the drums of the 1st 
Rhode Island Regiment as it started 
on the way to Washington, first in 
the field, most prompt of all the nation's 
defenders, at the President's call to 
arms. And Gov. William Sprague 
was at its head. 

The guiding principles of Rhode 
Island have become the principles 
of our nation and our civilization is 
fast becoming the inspiration and 
power of the world. 

Who says that we have no history 
and no heroes? 




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Moquette Carpet designed by Myra F. Blaisdell 



The Rhode Island School of Design 



BY 



ELSIE REASONER RALPH 




REAT institu- 
tions must b e 
based on o-reat 
I)riiici])l('s; and 
in tlie R h o d e 
Island School of 
Desio-ii, Provi- 
dence has a no- 
ble institution 
wliose aims are 
neither puerile nor small but are 
founded on a sane, sound foundation, 
on the cornerstone of wliich miiiht 
well be inscribed, "Our great nu>ans 
to a great end." 

To a few public-spirited, far-sighted 
women the city owes this ornament, 
one that will stand for ages as a monu- 
ment to the sex. 

Twenty-seven years ago last April 
the Rhode Island Centennial Conunit- 



tee found themselves with a small sur- 
plus of money on their hands, and no 
propel' medium in which to invest. 
After sonic deliberation the suggestion 
was made by the women on the Com- 
mittee, that a sum, $\i\7o, be used 
as the first ste]:) toward the forming 
of a sch(K)l where young people could 
be taught the useful as well as the 
beautiful in art. The idea was accept- 
ed, a board of trustees was appointed 
and in March, 1878, a charter for the 
school w-as applied for and was at 
once granted. April 30th of the 
same year the Constitution was drawn 
u]) and adopted, officers were elected, 
and the .School of Design became a 
reality. From that time until the 
present day there has been a gradual 
and healthy development of the School, 
financial Iv as well as along artistic 



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and industrial lines. It has been the 
recipient of many gifts, both in money 
and buildings, which have helped to 
make it the splendid institution it 
now is. Of the last the most notable 
examples are the Memorial Hall Build- 
ing, formerly the ()ld Central Con- 
gregational Church, which was pre- 
sented by j\Lrs. Gustav Radeke in 
1904, and the Pendleton House, which 
was given later by Stephen 0. ^letcalf. 

There are three l)uildings devoted 
to the work of its School and ^luseum. 
The ]\Iain Building on AVaterman 
Street contains seven of the galleries 
of the Museum, the ofhces for ad- 
minstration, and rooms for the de- 
partments of drawing and painting, 
decorative design, architecture, and 
jewelry design. 

Memorial Hall Building, contains 
rooms for the departments of mechan- 
ical and textile design. It also has 
an assembly hall capable of seating 
eight hundred peoi)le. 




Design for Book Cover 



The Colonial Building on Benefit 
Street, contains rooms for the mo- 
deling department of the school. 
There is a connecting gallery between 
the Colonial Building and the main 
building on Waterman Street. 

The broad principles of the school 
are stated in its constitution and well 
express the character of the work 
undertaken by its corporation and 
instructors. Its purposes are: The 
instruction of artisans in drawing, 
painting, modeling and designing, 
that they may successfully apply 
the ju'inciples of art to the recpiire- 
ments of trade and manufacture; 
the systematic training of students 
in the ]iractice of art, that they may 
understand its principles, give in- 
struction to others, or become artists; 
the general advancement of art educa- 
tion by the exhibition of works of 
art and art studies, and by lectures 
on art. 

A most successful Sunnuer School 
is open during June, July and part of 
August and this offers a wide range 
of courses, and in several of the de- 
partments the opportunity of outdoor 
work is given in connection with the 
courses of study. 

It is, however, for the general 
utility of its courses of instruction 
that the Rhode Island School of 
Design is most noted, for in almost 
no other institution of a similar 
character can the practical results 
of such courses be applied. 

Providence has long been noted 
as the seat of the greatest milling 
interests in cotton, wool and even 
silk, existing in the United States. 
Its je\^elry manufacturers are the 
largest, as well as the most famous 
in the world and in Ijrass work, iron 
work antl the like, there are several 
large establishments. As a consequence 



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Entrance to Main Gallery 



of these conditions there is an innnedi- 
ate and natural output of much of 
the woi'k done in the school and 
competition l)y the students is keen 
and healthy. There are many desij^ns 
done in the school that are noted for 
the excellence of their art. Moti\es 
and.desio-n. especially those for mctid 
work and fah- 
rics find a 
ready market 
in this city. 
Others, sucli 
as designs for 
wall papei'. foi' 
rrgs or car- 
pets, go t o 
other F^astern 
manufacturing 
cities by way 
of Providence. Metal Work by 




Some of the metal work, particularly, 
designs for ai'tistic jewelry rank with 
any that are i>roduced in any part of 
the world, with the jiossible e.xception 
of a few gieat designers in France. 
They are intende I for a wide variety 
of articles, gold to be .set with precious 
stones, all the latest and newest 
objects, boxes 
and the like. 
The same may 
be said of the 
tlesigns f o r 
sil \-ersmiths. 
Much of the 
best table- 
ware, beauti- 
f u 1 p u n c h 
1)0 wis, and 
cups to be 

\/ • Qf .J^^fc iised for prizes 

Various otudents * 



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have their beginnings in the Rhode 
Island School of Design. Examples 
of the most effective wall papers to 
be found in the studios of New York 
and Boston are designed here and the 
same may be said of the moquette 
carpets and rugs. In the more com- 
monplace goods such as cotton fabrics, 
textiles, both of wool and silk, manu- 
factured in Providence, all are notable 
fo]- the superiority of their designs, over 
those of other schools. Other branches 



to execute the most delicate work. 
So with every department, each being 
complete almost to the most minute 
detail. 

There are classes for painting and 
modeling and although painting and 
sculpture are not made paramount to 
other work there is much done in these 
two arts that is far above the ordinary. 

The School of Design possesses a fine 
art library, many of the volumes 
being rare and unusual, and a library 




Punch Bowl modeled by Alfred Sander 



of work that are done and that 
are not so well known, are book 
covers and some beautiful examples 
are reproduced here. All the various 
departments in the school are 
equipped with the most up-to-date 
appliances. The Textile Department 
has a dozen hand-looms and five 
power-looms, besides a special silk 
and a worsted loom. It has also 
the most modern spindle-twister and 
the necessary frames required for 
warp preparation. The jewelry de- 
partment has several workshops fitted 
up with the finest machinery suitable 



of magazines and collections of photo- 
graphs to which additions are made 
each year. It also has a Museum 
consisting of eight galleries, three of 
which contain oil and water color 
paintings and engravings; two contain 
a large collection of casts of the master- 
pieces of classic and Renaissance 
sculpture with a number of original 
marbles; one contains a fine collec'tion 
of autotypes illustrating the history 
of paintings; one is devoted to a 
collection of textiles and of peasant 
pottery, from many countries, and 
one contains a fine collection of 



RHODE ISLAND OLD HOME WEEK 



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Book Cover 

Japanese pottery, metal woi'k, lacquer 
and textiles. 

In addition to the permanent col- 
lection in the Museinn, there have 
been each year a number of special 
loan exhibitions in the galleries which 
have given the people of Providence 
an op])ortunity to see representati^•e 
collections of paintings by both Ameri- 
can and foreign artists. There have 
also been in different years many 
exhibitions in the industrial arts, of 
metal work and jewelry, of textiles 
and embroideries, of book plates, of 
drawings, of Japanese stencils and 
prints, of pottery, and of carvings. 
Since 1882 the State of Rhode Island 
has made each year an approi)riation 



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Book Cover 

for the School of Design, and l)oth 
the State and the City of Providence 
have made adtlitional appropriations- 
to be used as scholarships in^ the 
various classes of the school. There 
are also scholarships offered l)y the 
Providence Art Club, the Trustees- 
and Alunuii of the School of Design, 
the Art Students League of New \ ork 
and by friends of the School of Design. 
There are few institutions in this 
country, even those more richly en- 
dowed, that are conducted on such 
broad and generous lines as is the 
Rhode Island School of Design. It 
is a splendid example for other cities 
or States as to what may be accom- 
plished along the lines of beauty in 
utility and it is a standing tribute to 
the sound sense and rare judgment 
of its founders and of those who have 
been responsible for its present pros- 
perity. 




Decorative Design by Josephine L. Tillinghast 



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The Pendleton Collection 

BY 

GEORGE WHEELER. 




FlilW people only oiit- 
sideof Providence have 
ever heard of the Pen- 
dleton Collection and 
many in the city itself 
do not know that this 
almost ])iiceless collection of colonial 
furniturean J bric-a-bric is in existence. 
In this collection Pi'ovidence has a 
treasure of which it shouM be par- 
donabl^v proud, for it is unusual, unique 
and complete. 80 far, little has been 
told or written of it and but a few 
know of the wonderful pieces of old 
mahogany, the pictures, the rugs and 
the mar\'elous specimens of Chinese 
ware. Crown Derby, Lowestoft and 
"salt glaze" porcelain to be found in 
it. It is a collection that was years 
in the making, and represents an 
enormous amount of research, infinite 
care and patience in the choosing, and 
a fortune, as well. It was presented 
to the City of Providence, through 
the Rhode Island School of ])esign, 
by its former owner, the late Charles 
Leonard Pendleton, who began the 
collection some thirty years before 
his death which took place in 1905. 
He was known on both sides of the 
Atlantic as a connoisseur in things 
antique and as a man whose judgment 



almost invariably guided him to the 
selection of choicest of its kind. His 
finds and subsequent purchases were 
made in different parts of England, 
in sevei'al of the Southern States, 
throughout N^ew England, and, in 
fact, wherever furniture of the Georg- 
ian peiiod, the Colonial, Chippendale, 
Sheraton and Hepplewhite were to 
be found. 

Many of the first jnirchases were 
afterward disposed of l^y Mr. Pendle- 
ton as being unworthy the high 
standard he had established and as a 
consec[uence each individual article 
is absolutely perfect of its kind. 
I'nlike most collections, the one in 
Providence was not brought together 
to fill a certain place in a museum. 
I)ut after it was made and complete 
a suitable setting was obtained for 
it, by the erection of a fireproof Ijuihl- 
ing. that is in form and even appear- 
ance, a fine old Colonial residence. 

The Pendleton House, as it is known, 
is a part of the Rhode Island School 
of Design, and was a gift of Mr. 
Stephen (). Metcalf. one of the trustees 
of that institution. It was morleled 
after several old houses in Providence, 
notably the Pendleton and the Gov. 
Arnold homes and the collection itself 



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is so arranged as to make it ajjpeai' 
a completely furnished mansion. It 
is pure (ieoi'gian in architecture and 
a fine re]>resentation of the sim]:)lic- 
it}' and good taste of that ])erio(l. 
The exterior of reil brick is severe 
in style. The small ])orch is su])poi-t- 
ed by slender fluted Mliite colunms 
and surmounted by a low \vhit(^ I'ail- 
ing. The windows are capped by 
white stone trinunings and sliaded 
l\v conventional green blinds and the 
entire house is toi)ped by the same 
narrow, white railing. 

The entrance hall extends through 
the entire width of the house and the 
exit is down a flight of marble steps 
and throuii'h the School of Design. 



The hall is generously dimensioned, 
finished in white woodwoi-k. and the 
broad stairway is finished with a slen- 
dci'. mahogany handrail. The lintels 
abo\-e the doorways and the fire places 
of which there ai'e f(jur on the main 
floor, are Ijeautifully carved. The 
hall has one of the finest marble to))])ed 
tables in the worM. It is oblong 
in shape, with j)erfectly curved legs. 
(•ai\-ed in the Acanthus leaf ])attern. 
Tlie pi'o])ortions are spendid and the 
workmanshiji is of the finest. ( )\er 
it hangs a su])erb. oval mii'ror of 
Colonial design. Opposite is a mag- 
nificent sef-retaii'e. There are two 
unusual pieces in the hall, an (^Id 
thermometer. full\' four feet in lenjith. 




Photo by (r. A. Dean. 



Dining-Room Pendleton House. 




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which hangs at one side of the re- 
ception room door, and a hjw square 
stool, both beautifully carved. 

In the drawing room one's attention 
is first attracted by a sofa of (^ueen 
Ann mahogan3% with chairs to match, 
all upholstered in red satin damask. 
The windows are di-ap- 
ed in the same beauti- 
ful material, hung un- 
der old fashioned brass 
cornices and looped 
l;)ack with brass rosettes. 
Here also are several 
small tables and two 
beautiful cabinets filled 
with rare Chinese Por- 
celain. The floor is 
covered with a dull, old 
rug anti on the walls are 
two fine examples of the 
work of Hobbema, one 
of Van Der Veer and 
one of Wouwerman. 

In the library is a 
])ortion of a suite of 
c hairs and settees, 
which is one of the most 
valuable of the collec- 
tion. It is authentically 
stated that it is the 
only one of its kind to 
be had and Mr. Pendleton prized it 
more highly than any of his treasures. 
The pieces are of the darkest old 
mahogany, cunningly carved in the 
design of an eagle's head, the beak 
holding the heavy stiles of the back 
and the talons grasping the curved 
sides. The shell decoration is seen 
in the carving and the feet are finished 
with the claw and ball. This set 
is stated to be the work of Grinling 
Gibbons, an unrivaled wood carver 
of the early eighteenth century, and 
they are priceless. Two of the six 




chairs are missing from the set, one 
I)eing in the John Sloane Museum in 
London and the other in the possession 
of Mr. Geo. S. Palmer of Connecticut. 
Mr. Pendleton made several efforts 
to obtain the missing pieces, but was 
unable to do so. A part of the set 
is covered with green 
velvet, wonderful in 
shade and texture, 
m a d e from priest's 
vestments. 

The librar}'- contains 
a line antique escritoire 
of unusually noble pro- 
portions, with the old 
shell carving at the top, 
and cvu-iously made with 
Tlir('(\ instead of the 
usual two glass doors 
in the ui)])er half of the 
fro n t . This change 
gives the jtiece a par- 
ticularly quaint appear- 
ance. On the floor is 
an antique Daghestan 
rug and on the lai'ge 
mahogany centre table 
is a costly vase of green 
jade ill a teak wood 
stand, an old reading 
glass, and two wonder- 
ful pieces of Chinese Porcelain, gray in 
color, with decorations of red dragon. 
On the mantle in this room is a set 
of five ornaments, also Chinese ware, 
exceedingly rare and graceful in 
shape. 

There are a number of other objects 
that might be mentioned, notably 
some old Staffordshire pottery of the 
"salt glaze" variety, that is so dear 
to the heart of the collector and so 
difhcult to obtain. 

The furnishings of the dining room 
are entirely of Hepplewhite and Slier- 



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aton, this being the only apartment 
in the house exclusively given over 
to this style of furniture. The drop 
leaf dining table has a narrow inlaid 
border, and four inlaid medallions of 
classic design. The chairs are of 
slender, graceful Hepplewhite, the 
backs inlaid in gold, and for actual 
beauty are perhaps the most attrac- 
tive of the entire collection. The 
buffet, side table and corner cabinets 
are all Sheraton. ( )n either end of 
the first are cjueer old knife holders. 
On the table and in the cal^net are 
pieces of crystal and fine examples 
of Sheffield plate. 

The china closet which opens from 
the dining room, would rejoice the 
heart of any housekeeper. Here are 
to be seen several complete sets of 



Crown Derby, Whieldon and Staf- 
fordshire pottery with occasional other 
pieces of unusual excellence. 

The furniture of the reception room 
is not confined to the work of any one 
maker, but each example is good and 
many of them are historically interest- 
ing. 

Aljove stairs there are four bed 
rooms, each with its four post bed 
and dressing tables, side pieces and 
chairs to correspond. One bed has 
for its headboard a solid piece of 
mahogany, most delicately carved in 
a design of shell and garlands. An- 
other is known as a field bedstead 
and is one of the few in this country. 
It is made with slender fluted posts, 
supporting a tent shaped canopy, 
all draped with an interesting hand 




Photo III/ }r. A. Dean. 



Drawing-Room, Pendleton House. 



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I'll old III/ )f'. A. Dean 



made deep fringed netting. The bed 
covering is an exani])Ie of old Rhode 
Island Colonial embroidery. There 
are a number of large chests of draw- 
ers in these rooms, two of them with 
swell fronts, and some good tables. 

All the rooms throughout the house 
are papered and hung in absolute 
accord with the period they represent. 
One or two of the apartments are 
y)aneled, giving them a ])articularly 
old fashioned effect. The woodwork 
is all in keeping with the general 
scheme of the house and the floors 
are of hard wood, highly ])olished. 
There are a number of beautiful 
mirrors hanging on the wall as well 
as some fine portraits, works of some 
of the best of the eighteenth century 
painters. 

One of the finest treasures of the 
collection is a long case clock, made 
about 1670, with works by Fromal- 
teel and Clark. The case is of walnut 



Library, Pendleton House 

with carvings of the Flemish Ke- 
naissance period and the dial is of 



unusual beauty. This clock is still 
running and is kee]:)ing accui'ate time. 

Particular attention has been ]:)aid 
to the chandeliers in the several 
rooms and all are in harmony with 
their surroundings. The one in the 
dining room.madeof old hand-wrought 
iron, is esj^ecially worthy of notice. 

The entire history of the Pendleton 
Collection is embodied in a su])erbly 
compiled folio, embellished with many 
excellent plates, rei)roducing many 
of the pieces as well as their detail. 
This, in itself, is a valuable work of 
art. 

The collection is ])ractically a free 
one, it being open to the public on 
every alternate day, and on the others 
only a nominal fee is chai-ged. 

It is an unusual and lasting mon- 
ument to the founder, and an ornament 
to the city which it graces. 



Industrial Opportunities of Providence 



BY 



JOSIAH BOWDITCH. 




ROVIDENCE is 
one of the greatest 
industrial centres 
in America. It is 
the largest jewelry 
manufacturing city 
in the country and — with Pawtucket, 
the tenth in rank, Attleboro, the 
fourth, and North Attleboro, the 
fifth (three suburbs)— it may well 
be called the greatest jewelry manu- 
facturing centre of the United States, 
if not of the world. 

Providence contains the largest 
silverware establishment and the larg- 
est mechanical tool manufactory in 
the world, and the product of its 
workers in the white metal is greater 
than that of any state in the country 
other than Rhode Island. The value 
of its gold and silver refining — largely 
the savings of the clippings and sweep- 
ings of its jewelry shops — is exceeded 
only by that of New York cit3^ It 
manufactures more woolen and worst- 
ed goods than any other American 
city except Lawrence. It has the 
largest screw manufactory and 
the largest file manufactory in 
the world, and it is the second largest 
])roducer of butterine products. It 
is a large producer of cotton goods, 
malt liquors, foundry and machine 
shop products, and rubber goods, and 
is one of the leading cities in the dyeing 
and finishing of textiles. Besides 
the leading industries here specified, 
it may be said that nearly every 



manufactured product in textiles, 
iron, gold, silver, and other metals, 
is made in Providence, either in a 
large or small way. 

The Rhode Island metropolis is 
also the natural trading centre and 
distributing point for a populous manu- 
facturing community. Textile indus- 
tries are carried on in nearly every 
city and town of the state. Within a 
twenty-mile circle drawn around the 
Providence city hall, which includes 
Taunton and Fall River— is the largest 
textile manufacturing centre in the 
country. 

Its pre-eminence as a great manu- 
facturing centre makes this city the 
natural point to which artisans of 
every degree gravitate in search of 
employment, and as the facility for 
obtaining workmen is an important 
factor in the location of new industries, 
Providence should be a favorite point 
for the investment of capital. In- 
dustrial enterprises locating in the 
city thus have a great population in 
which to dispose of their wares, and 
a large and varied industrial army from 
which to obtain skilled workmen. 

The city's transportation facilities 
are unrivaled. It has steam rail- 
ways radiating to Boston, Worcester, 
Hartford, New Haven, Fall River, and 
to suburban points. Standing at the 
head of Narragansett Bay, the largest 
ocean freighters can approach its 
wharves, and its harbor is constantly 
being dredged to provide ample anch- 



RHODE ISLAND OLD HOME WEEK 



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orage ground for vessels of the deepest 
draught. Its situation is tluis un- 
rivaled for the establishment of in- 
dustrial enterprises of nearly every 
kind. Its excellent harbor and har- 
bor accommodations enable it to re- 
ceive the raw material of n^anufacture, 
and to dispatch the finished products 
of its industrial establishments at the 
lowest freight charges. 

Providence is a city of more than 
200,000 inhabitants, and it has more 
])opulous suburbs than any other 
American city, save Boston, New York 
and Chicago. 

It is the largest city between Boston 
and New York, and the second largest 
in New England. The water supply 
comes from the Pawtuxet River. 
Large sums have recently been ex- 
pended in installing filter beds, in 
improved and enlarged pumping ser- 
vice, in reservoirs and larger mains. 
With ample storage reservoirs and 
with the increased pressure which 
their installation insures, and with an 
especially effective paid fii-e depart- 
ment. Providence is able to connnand 
the lowest insurance rates. It has 
also, an excellent system of sewerage. 
It is one of the best-lighted cities on 
the continent, and excels most Ameri- 
can cities in street cleanliness and in 
sanitation. The fire department con- 
sists of thirty companies — nine with 
steam fire engines — and about 300 men. 
The police number 310 men. The 
city has 104 public day schools, many 
evening schools, and numerous paro- 
chial, technical, commercial and other 
schools, partially or wholly depending 
upon voluntary support or upon tui- 
tion fees. Of its higher institutions 
the most noted are the Friends School 
and Brown University. The latter, 
which was established in 1764, is one 



of the leading Colleges of the country 
and nund)ers among its graduates 
many of the country's most noted men. 
With Pembroke College (the women's 
annex) it contains nearly 1000 students 
witli about 100 instructors. Its li- 
l)rary contains 150,000 volumes. ( )ther 
important libraries are the Providence 
Public Library, with 120,000 volumes, 
the Providence Athen;rum. the .State 
i.ibiary at the State Hou.se, the Law 
Library at the Providence County 
Court House and the Historical Society 
bibrarv. There are also many smaller 
libraries, such as those of the ^'oiing 
Men's Christian A.ssociation and the 
Union for Christian Work (oOOO vol- 
umes), accessible to the public without 
chai'gp. .Most of them have reading- 
rooms containing the current maga- 
zines and leading daily newsj)apers, 
some of them are nuich frecjuented 
for reference purposes, and by tho.se 
of foreign speech, because of their 
wealth of literature in many tongues. 
Providence has the finest and safest 
hai4)or entranc(> on the northern 
.\tlantic coast. Narragansett Bay, 
which is about thirty miles long and 
three to twelve miles broad, embracing 
an area of some 300 square miles, is 
practically land locked. Once inside 
its middle or western passages, wiiich 
are entered through channels 400 feet 
wide and 25 feet deep, a vessel is in 
safe waters during the most violent 
storms. Providence lies at the head 
of the western arm of the Bay, miles 
beyond the range of projectiles from 
a hostile fleet. The Providence river, 
so-called, is formed In' the union of 
the Moshassuck antl Woonascpuitucket 
rivers, near the centre of the city. 
About a mile below their junction, 
their waters join with those of the 
larger Seekonk river. The tri-river 



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stream enters Xarragansett Bay a 
mile ami a half south of their junction. 
The wide area between the junction 
of the three rivers at Fox Point, and 
their exit into the Ray, between Field's 
and Kettle Point, is called the "outer 
harbor." When the dredging now in 
progress by the National (lovernment 
is finished, the harbor will have a 
uniform depth of 25 feet, including 
an anchorage area of 171 acres. Above 
Fox Point the inner harbor is under 
the sole care of the city. The favor- 
al)le ])ossibilities of the port offer 
inducements to unlimited capital for 
investment in wharfage property, 
shipping, and in coastwise and foreign 
connnercial and passenger service. 
There is ample space along the water 
front for warehouses and for manu- 
facturing plants of endless variety, 
which would have unrivaled facilities 
for receiving raw material and dis- 
patching the finished product of manu- 
facture, both by water and land 
freightage, at the least possible ex- 
penditure in handling. Situated as 
Providence is, in the centre of a great 
manufacturing tlistrict, with a safe 
and commodious harbor, it ought to 
be a great importing and exporting 
port. It has the largest dry dock 
between Boston and New York, and 
ship building might be profitably 
carried on on its extensive water front. 



Besides the extensive area along the 
city's water front available for indus- 
trial enterprises, acres of unused space 
are located all along the border of the 
steam railway tracks which traverse 
the whr)le length of the city. This 
is es])ecially true of the "Up])er Cove" 
lands, which were formerly flowed, 
and also of the low lands through 
which the railroad tracks pass in the 
nortlien ])art of the city. ]^)y the use 
of short spur "tracks factories located 
along the line of the railway could load 
and unload their freightage directly 
from and into the cars, at a great 
saving of expense. 

There is but little water power in 
use in Providence, and none is avail- 
able for new enterprises, but there is 
unlimited opportunity for the use of 
steam and electric power for industries 
of moderate size, and there is an un- 
limited supplv of Pawtuxet water 
available in such c|uanities as might 
be required on reasonable terms. 

In short, Providence offers the most 
favorable inducements for the location 
of industries of all varieties, both 
great and small. It is now represent- 
ed by nearly all, the most notable 
exception being that of leatJier shoe 
making. It has no shoe factories of 
any kind. There is no reason why 
this industry might not be profitably 
carried on. 





The Official Program 

OF THE 

Old Home Week 

Providence, July 2 8- August 3 

1907 




THE BANK OF THE PEOPLE 




Among the institutions in 
Providence that will attract 
and surprise visitors returning 
after a few years' absence is the 
Union Trust Co. 

It was organized in i8g^ 
with a Captital Stock of $2^0- 
000, with Assets of $i->335-,- 
000. In igo/f- its Capital Stock 
was $2^0,000, its Surplus was 
$1,000, 000, and its Assets 
nearly $1^,000,000. 

In iQoy its Capital is 

$300,000, its Surplus is $2,- 

000,000, and its Assets nearly 

$2g,ooo,ooo. 



UNION TRUST COMPANY BUILDING 

Westminster and Dorrance Streets 



// transacts a general Bank- 
ing and Trust Company business 
and offers its customers, at home 
and abroad all conveniences and 
assistance. 

Banking roo?ns at the corner 
of Dorrance and Westminster 
Streets, in the Union Trust 
Company Building. 



WE ALLOW INTEREST ON ACCOUNTS SUBJECT TO CHECK. 
SAVINGS DEPT. PAYS 4^^ PER ANNUM, INTEREST COMPOUNDED 

SEMI-ANNUALLY. 



SUNDAY 



Roger Williams Day 



9 a. m. Ringing of church bells and chimes 

1 0.45 a. m. Services in all churches 

Memorial Services in First Baptist Meeting House 

Historical Address by Rev. Henry Melville King, D. D., Pastor 
Emeritus of the First Baptist Church 

Address by Lieutenant-Governor Frederick H. Jackson, representing 
the State of Rhode Island 

Address by Hon. Patrick J. McCarthy, representing the City of 
Providence 

Special Afternoon Services for children in all Churches 
Evening Concerts and Services in all churches 



3 p. m. Sacred Band Concert at Roger Williams Park 
8 p. m. Sacred Band Concert at Roger Williams Park 



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MONDAY 



Historical Day 

9 a. m. to 5 p. m. Brown University open for inspection 

9 a. m. to 5 p. m. Exhibition of historical objects, Sayles Hall 

9 a. m. to 3 p. m. Historical Society buildings open for inspection 

9 a. m. to 5 p. m. Public Library open for inspection. (Guides furnished ) 

10 a. m. Kent Improvement Society, Excursion to East Greenwich 
2 p. m. to 5 p. m. Pendleton Collection open for inspection 

2 p. m. to 5 p. m. Rhode Island School of Design open for inspection 

2.30 p. m. Services in connection with the placing of a tablet 
to mark the Camp Ground, near Rochambeau 
Avenue, of the French Troops during the Re- 
volutionary War 

Prayer by Rev. Samuel H. Webb, Chaplain Rhode Island Society, 
Sons of the American Revolution 

Introductory address by Professor Wilfred H. Munro, President of 
the Rhode Island Historical Society 

Address by President of the Rhode Island Society, Sons of the 

American Revolution 
Historical address by Hon. Charles Warren Lippitt, Ex-Governor of 

Rhode Island 

Song — America 

Benediction by Rev. Samuel H. Webb 

4 p. m. Reception by the Rhode Island Historical Society. 

Address by Marsden J. Perry, Chairman Old Home Week 
Committee 

8 p. m. Band Concert, Exchange Place 

8 p. m. Band Concert, Roger Williams Park 




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( EDWI N r. CARY) 

Real Estate and insurance 




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HITCOMB FARM 




INCORPORATED 



RIVERSIDE, R. I. 



Is the Largest Poultry Farm in the United States. We are 
now prepared to deliver Fresh Eggs daily direct to families. 
Eggs gathered in the afternoon are delivered the next morning. 
Nothing delivered in the name of Whitcomb Farm unless 
produced on the place. 



WARREN R. FALES, Pres and Treas. 



Telephone 68-2 East Providence 



TUESDAY 



Municipal Day 



9 a. m. to 5 p. m. State Capitol open for inspection 

9 a. m. to 5 p. m. City Hall open for inspection 

9 a. m. to 5 p. m. Court House open for inspection (Guides furnished) 

Manufacturing Establishments open for inspection 

Cards for admission may be obtained at the Old Home Week Headquarters 

Special Clam Bakes and Attractions at all Shore Resorts on Narragansett 
Bay 

3 p. m. Baseball Game — Doctors vs. Lawyers. Providence Baseball 
Grounds 

8 p. m. Band Concert, Exchange Place 

8 p. m. Band Concert, Roger Williams Park 













WEDNESDAY 






First Carnival Day 


2 p. m, to 6 p. 


m. Cricket Game — Providence vs. Boston, Cricket Grounds 


2 p. m. Canoe Races and Water Sports, Roger Williams Park 




Races 


Event 1. 


Quarter-mile Singles 


Event 2. 


Quarter-mile Tandems ; Class B 


Event 3. 


Quarter-mile Club Fours 


Event 4. 


Three-quarter-mile Relay Race. Three crews of two men 


each from each Club 


Event 5. 


Half-mile Club Fours; Class A 




Sports 


Event 1. 


Tilting Matches 


Event 2. 


Tip-over Race 


Event 3. 


Tail-end Race 


Event 4. 


Rescue Race 


Event 5. 


Blindfold Race 


Event 6. 


Hurdle Race 


Event 7. 


Tug-of-war; Club Four Boats 


2.30 p. m. Motorcycle Event. Arrival of endurance riders from New 




York at Hills Grove Track 



WEDNESDAY 



Continued. 

2.30 p. m. FIELD DAY SPORTS. Andrews Field 

First Part— Handicap Events 

100 yard dash 
440 yard run 
880 yard run 
3 mile run 

Running High Jump 
Running Broad Jump 
Putting 1 6 pound Shot 
Discus throwing 
Team Race 

Second Part 

Calisthenic Drill, 500 Playground Children 

Wrestling, Herrick and Catanah of New York 

Horse Work, Providence Y. M. C. A. 

Tumbling, Y. M. C. A. Teams — (Christian, Daniels, Gager 

and Marshall, Merrill, Johnson and Hall) 
Parallel Bars, Providence Y. M. C. A. 
Classic Posing, Hernck and Catanah 
Old Fashioned Lawn Dance, Providence Y. M. C. A. 
Games, Races, Etc., Playground Children 

8 p. m. Band Concert, Roger Williams Park • 

8.30 p. m. Fire-works, Roger Williams Park 



THURSDAY 



Second Carnival Day 

10 a. m. Trades Parade 

1 a. m. Parade of Volunteer Fire Companies of New England 

Exhibition of modern Fire Department of Providence ; fifteen 
companies responding to an alarm 
1 2 m. Firemen's Playout, Dexter Training Ground 

Motorcycle Contest — Hills Grove Track 

8 a. m. Event 1 . One mile straightaway against time, for motorcycles 

not over 30.5 cubic inches piston displacement 
Event 2. One mile straightaway against time for motorcyles 

not over 61 cubic inches piston displacement 
Event 3. One mile straightaway against time. Free for all 
1 a. m. Event 4. Twenty mile Colonial handicap motorcycle road race 

over course 3.3 miles 

2 p. m. Event 5. One mile novice, single cylinder. Owners to ride 

Event 6. Five mile Rhode Island championship, double-cylin- 
der. Owners to ride 

Event 7. Two mile F. A. M. National championship 

Event 8. Two mile open, single cylinder 

Event 9. Five mile championship 

Event 1 0. Fifty mile challenge club team race for Betts Shield. 
Team to consist of two riders and a substitute. 
Value of shield $150.00 

Event 1 1 . Five mile. Free for all 

3 to 1 1 p. m. Pawtuxet Neck Field Day, League of Improvement 

Societies of Rhode Island 



THURSDAY 



Continued 



2 p. m. 

2 p. m. 

3 p. m. 



3 p. 



m. 



Water Carnival — Narragansett Bay 

Yacht Races 

High Speed Launch Race 

Band Concert, Washington Park Yacht Club 



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aces 



Event 1 . 
Event 2. 
Event 3. 



1 2 Oared Barges from U. S. Naval Training Station 
1 2 Oared Barges, U. S. Naval Reserves 
1 2 Oared Barges from U. S. War Ships 



3.30 p. m. Exhibition by Volunteer Life Saving Crews 

4.00 p. m. Band Concert, Edgewood Yacht Club 

4.00 p. m. Dinghy Races 

4.30 p. m. Tug-of-War 

5.00 p. m. Band Concert, Rhode Island Yacht Club 

5.30 p. m. Exhibition of Hydroplane 

6.00 p. m. Special Race of Hydroplanes 

Swimming Matches — Washington Park Yacht Club 

5 p. m. Event 1 . 50 yard Race for Boys under 1 5 years of age 

Event 2. Tub Race 

Event 3. 50 yard swim on back. Open to all 

Event 4. 200 yard swim for Boys under 1 8 years of age 



Old Home Week at the 



Lorraine Mills Remnant Room 

Pawtucket, R. I. 

August Clearance Sale 




E offer timely bargains in Seconds and Remnants of WASH 
COTTON DRESS GOODS, DOTTED SWISS MUS- 
LINS, MERCERIZED WAISTINGS, PLAIN AND 
MERCERIZED GINGHAMS, and new patterns in 
SHIRTINGS at very low prices. 

GALL AND SEE US 



From Providence take Smithfield Avenue electric car, or train to 
Woodlawn. From Pawtucket take Mineral Spring Avenue electric car. 



THURSDAY 



Continued 

5 p. m. Edgewood Yacht Club 

Event 1 . 1 50 yard Race for Girls 
Event 2. 1-4 mile swim for Boys 
Event 3. Obstacle Race 

NOTE : In this Race the contestants will be dressed in 
hat. shirt, long trousers and shoes, carrying open umbrella. The start 
will be made from an elevated platform 

Event 4, 1 00 yard dash for amateur Championship of State 

5 p. m. Rhode Island Yacht Club 

Event 1 . Mile Race for amateur Championship of State 

Event 2. Fancy diving match 

Event 3. 1 50 yard Race for women 

Event 4. Vice Versa Race 

NOTE : In this Race the women will be permitted to drop 
their bathing skirts on entering the water and the men swimmers 
will be handicapped by women's complete bathing suits 

8. 1 p. m. Illumination of Yachts and Shores 
8 p. m. Band Concert, Narragansett Bay 
8.30 p. m. Fireworks, Narragansett Bay 
8 p. m. Band Concert, Exchange Place 
8 p. m. Band Concert, Roger Williams Park 



FRIDAY 



Third Carnival Day 

Motorcycle Contest — Hill Climbing, Francis Street 

9 a. m. Event I. For motorcycles not over 35.5 cubic inches piston 

displacement 
Event 2. For motorcycles not over 61 cubic inches piston 

displacement 
Event 3. Free for all 

1 a. m. Military and Civic Parade 

1 a. m. Golf Tournament — 1 8 holes, Agawam Hunt Club 

Motorcycle Contest — Hills Grove Track 

2 p. m. Event I . Two mile for Rhode Island riders who have never 

won first prize. Owners to ride 

Event 2. Five mile, free for all 

Event 3. Three mile open, single cylinder 

Event 4. One mile F. A. M. National championship 

Event 5. Five mile Rhode Island championship, single cylin- 
der. Owners to ride. 

Event 6. Ten mile F. A. M. National championship 

Event 7. Ten mile handicap 

Event 8. Two mile consolation, for riders who have not 
won a prize in any contest during the meet, using 
same motorcycle as used by them in the contests 

8 p. m. Band Concert, Roger Williams Park 
8 p. m. Band Concert, Exchange Place 

8 p. m. Parade of Electrical Floats (See papers for route) 



SATURDAY 



Merchants' Day 



10 a. m. Golf Tournament — 18 holes, Wannamoisett Country Club 
1 a. m. Tennis Tournament, Wannamoisett Country Club 
3 p. m. Band Concert, Roger Williams Park 



Headquarters of Order of Odd Fellows open during the week 

Headquarters of Order of Elks open during the week. 

Headquarters of Order of Knights of Columbus open during the week 



Points of Interest Open Daily 

9 a, m. to 5 p. m. Exhibition of historical objects, Sayles Hall, Brown 

University 

9 a. m. to 5 p. m. Historical Society building open for inspection. 

9 a. m. to 5 p. m. Public Library open for inspection. (Guides furnished) 

9 a. m. to 5 p. m. Annmary Brown Collection on exhibition. 

9 a. m. to 5 p. m. Providence Art Club open to visitors. 

2 p. m. to 5 p. m. Pendleton Collection open to visitors. 

2 p. m. to 5 p. m. Rhode Island School of Design open to visitors. 





St. John's Episcopal Church, Providence 

As it originally Appeared, from a copper plate engraving in the possession of the Rhode Island 
Historical Society. This plate was made from a drawing by Zachariah Allen. 



Old Times and Old Buildings 

BY 

WILFRED H. MUNRO. 




HT] CITY of Providence 
owes its existence to 
the persecutions heap- 
ed by the people of the 
Massachusetts Bay 
Colony upon a young, 
brilliant and impulsive clergyman 
named Roger Williams. According to 
the best authorities the founder of these 



"Plantations" was born about the 
year 1603. He was the son of James 
Williams, a merchant tailor of Lon- 
don, and of Alice Peniberton, his wife, 
and was educated at Pembroke College, 
Cambridge. 

When he landed at Boston in 
1631 the Bay people received him 
gladly as a godly minister and a pro- 



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found scholar. But his impatience 
at the narrow sectarianism amid 
which he found himself and his bold 
denial of theological theories most 
dear to the colonists quickly brouglit 
him into chsfavor. l^anished at last 
from Massachusetts because he could 
not be silent concerning his own 
opinions, and because he steadfastly 
refused his assent to the religious 
doctrines held by the j^eople al:)out 
him, he fled to the wilderness. After 
fourteen weeks of wanderings through 
the primeval forest, most of that 
time knowing not what "either bed 
or bread did mean," he landed with 
five companions who had joined their 
fortunes with his, at Slate Rock, upon 
the shore of the Seekonk River. 
Thence passing around l''ox Point 
and up the Mooshassuc lie ])robably 
landed not far from the spot where 
St. John's Church now stands. His 
first rough cabin he Iniilt near the 
spring which stiJl flows from beneath 
the house which is now No. 244 North 
Main Street (A tablet placed upon 



this house by the Rhode Island 
Historical Society bears the inscription 
"Under this liouse still flows Roger 
Williams' spring"). 

To this man who was continu- 
ally "broaching new and dangerous 
ojiinions against the authority of 
the Magistrates," others, who held 
as uncompromisingly to their own 
opinions and who chafed as greatly 
against any control in matters theo- 
logical as did he, quickly joined 
tliemselves. 

The result was a government "only 
in civil things" for the new settlement. 
I'reedom of conscience was for the 
first time in America sternly insisted 
upon. No coercion whatsoever was 
permitted in matters of religion, and 
freedom was even carried to excess. 
Thus Joshua Verin, one of the five 
associates of Williams was pimished 
for "restraining his wife's liberty of 
conscience." (Mrs. Verin had devel- 
oped an unusual fondness for prayer 
meetings and sermons and the so- 
called head of the family deemed that 




Old View of Brown University, 1822. 



RHODE ISLAND OLD HOME WEEK 



67 




Old View of Arcade, 1850. 



household economics should be ])ro- 
vided for before undivided attention 
was given to matters spiritual). 
Though the new settlers were for the 
most part godly men no church was 
at first organized. An organization 
such as marked the founding of the 
Calvinistic New England towns would 
have implied the union of church and 
state — the very thing the exiles for 
conscience's sake were determined to 
do away with. "Individualism" was 
the characteristic feature of the new 
colony and "individualism" has con- 
tinued to be the characteristic featui-e 
of the colony and state of Rhode 
Island ever since. This has not been 
an unmixed blessing. 

Nowhere else in America has it been 
so difficult to induce all men to unite 
for the furtherance of great public 
improvements. That Providence was 



almost the last'city of any importance 
to, introduce a system of water supply. 
Years were required for the solution 
of the steam railway ])roblems, be- 
cause individuals were so insistent 
upon their own ]>lans. Ua])id and 
speedy transit to "The lOast .Side" 
may be arranged for soon but ])robably 
iu)t until every intelligent man in the 
city has had an op])()rtunity to ex])re.ss 
in print his o])ini()ns upon the matter. 
On the other hand nowhere else in 
the land *has such marvellous success 
attended the individual efforts made 
in the building u]i of great ]u-ivate 
enterprises. All over the world Provi- 
dence names are known through the 
products Providence men have de- 
velojied. It is not necessary here to 
specify instances. 

A charter for the new settlement 
was secured under which tlie Colonv 



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Map of Providence, 1 803. 



lived from 1648 to 1663. The 
remarkable thing about this docu- 
ment was the small amount of 
land to which it applied. Roger 
Williams would have no indefinite 
stretching out toward the west. He 
drew "our poor and inconsiderable 
line" because he was too conscientious 
to take anything which he thought 
did not belong to him. In 1663 
through the efforts of Dr. John Clarke 
of Newport, one of the ablest men 
in the Colony, a new charter was 
obtained from King Charles the Second. 
This instrument was liberal enough 
in its provisions to satisfy even the 
critical tastes of the settlers of the 
Providence and Rhode Island Plan- 
tations. Upon it the government 
of the colony and state was based 
for one hundred and eighty years. 
It was when abrogated in 1843, the 
oldest Constitutional Charter in exist- 
ence. 



The early days of Rhode Island were 
not days of great prosperity. Its 
people were looked upon as pestilent 
heretics, by tlie people of the neigh- 
boring colonies of Plymouth, Massa- 
chusetts Bay and Connecticut. Dis- 
putes concerning boundary lines were 
frequent. The Rhode Islanders were 
left to fight their own battles with 
the Indians even in the days of 
King Philip's war, when the struggle 
was a life or death contest between the 
white man and the red man. The 
town of Providence was burned in 
1676, during this war. Its rebuilding 
began immediately after it, but not 
until 1701 did it regain even the im- 
portance it had lost. Feuds among 
the colonists were not infrequent and 
the searcher for additional knowledge 
may find most interesting information 
on this subject in almost any history 
of the State. Roger Williams was 
never a tactful man and his associates 



RHODE ISLAND OLD HOME WEEK 



71 



were by no means jiacific in their 
conduct. Some extraordinary epi- 
sodes therefore resulted. 

As was to be expected shipbuild- 
ing was one of the earliest industries 
to be developed. Singularly enough 
one of the earliest l^uilders, after the 
burning and rebuilding of the town, 
was like Roger Williams, a sufferer for 
conscience sake. Nathaniel Brown of 
Rehoboth, Mass., became a member of 
the Church of England. Refusing to 
pay taxes for the support of the estab- 
lished religion in IVIassachusetts he was 



imprisoned for a time in Bristol (then 
a part of Massachusetts.) On his 
release he transferred his business 
from Rehoboth to Providence and 
was granted the use of about an acre 
of land on Weybosset Neck. Roughly 
speaking his ship yard covered the 
space now included between the In- 
dustrial Trust Co. building and Wash- 
ington Row. 

The ve.ssels he built were sloops 
and small two-masters mostly — never 
of more than a hundred tons burden. 
The commerce of that dav was car- 




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from Market Square. 

Taken from the steps of the Franklin House in 1843 From an old painting by 
George W- Harris, in the possession of the Rhode Island His'orical ^ociety. 



72 OFFICIAL SOUVE 

ried on in such craft. They sailed 
not only to the West Indies and the 
Spanish Main, but crossed the Atlantic 
to Europe, and were even familiar 
with the shores of Africa. 

To Nathaniel Brown was partly 
due the building of the first edifice 
used by King's, now St. John's Church 
— a picture of which may be found in 
this magazine. Gabriel Bernon was 
the principal contributor to its erection 
but Brown gave the land upon which 
it was placed. The town was not 



NIR AND PROGRAM 

Until 1761 no attempt was made 
at improving the town streets. Around 
Market Square in rainy weather, 
and sometimes at very high tides, 
was a horrible bog dangerous alike 
to man and beast. A lottery was 
granted for paving and Weybosset 
Street was paved across. There was 
no sidewalk. The "Crown of the 
Causeway" in the middle served as 
such. Large round stones were used 
for the paving. 

The next year the County House 




Old Tockwotton Hall. 

The Tockwotton House was built in the year 1810 as a private dwelling and 
used as such until 1833. It stood on what is now Tockwotton Park and was in- 
tended to accommodate the stop-over travel of the Boston and New York route, the 
station being but a short distance away. From 1850 to 1880 it was used for the 
Rhode Island Reform School and in 1889 it was torn down. 



much given to building meeting houses 
or churches in its early days. In 
1723 one was put where the Court 
House now stands on the corner of 
Benefit and College Streets. A lane 
(College St.) was opened from the 
Town Street (Main St.) to give access 
to it. In 1794 this building was sold 
to the town and was thence forward 
used as the "Town House." (A 
picture of it may be seen in the Cabi- 
net of the R. I. Historical Society). 



now known as the Old State House, 
was erected. By this time a pros- 
perous town had been developed. Its 
population for the most part lived on 
the East Side and west of Benefit 
Street. There were comparatively 
few buildings on the west side of the 
river, and Westminster Street to Dor- 
rance street and beyond was almost 
all under water at high tide. 

In 1764 Brown University — it was 
first known as Rhode Island College — 



RHODE ISLAND OLD HOME WEEK 



73 




Commodore Hopkins House, Providence. 



was chartered and in 1770, the insti- 
tution having been removed from War- 
ren, University Hall was erected. The 
erection of the Market House, now 
known as the Board of Trade Build- 
ing, was accomplished in 1773. The 
First Baptist Meeting House was 
completed and dedicated May 28, 1775, 
"For the Worship of Almighty God 
and also to hold Commencements in." 
Its bell, made in London, bore 
this inscription: 



"For Ireedoin of conscience the town 

\\as first planted, 
Persuasion not force was used by the 

people ; 
Tiiis Church was the elde.st and has 

not recanted, 
Enjoying and granting bell, temple 

and steeple." 

This bell, split by ringing in 1787 
was recast. Its new inscription reads, 
"This Church was formed A. D. 1639, 
the first in the State, and the eldest 
of the Baptists in America." 




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The Metropolitan Park System of Providence 



BY 



HENRY A. BARKER. 




T is a hope- 
ful indica- 
tion of the 
ultimate 
fruition of 
larger plans 
that the 
people o f 
Providence 
are begin- 
n i n g to 
talk of their Park "System." 

At present such a term is rather 
a misnomer. Scattered ]iarks there 
are of much and varied interest, but 
in their acr[uirement there has not 
until recently been any well defined 
idea, and surely no comprehensive 
plan in their development. 

Providence started with a glorious 
legacy of river and hill and bay, and 
a climate stimulating to the best fruits 
of labor. At the head of a command- 



ing waterway, in the midst of country 
well suited to be the abiding place of 
an active and happy population; cut 
off by the northern liills from the 
severe storms of a New England winter 
and with the heat of its summer suns 
tempered by the prevailing breezes 
from its broad bay: the reasons for 
its growth and prosj^crous condition 
are not difficult to discover. 

It is in the richness of its possi- 
bilities, however, that Providence is 
especially noteworthy. Its present 
achievements are in many ways acci- 
dental or the result of independent 
and spasmodic effort. 

Until recently, in Providence, as 
in many other cities, the real wootls 
and unpolluted rivers were not far 
away from the city's centre and so 
the park need was not a vital one. 

In 1892 the combined area of all 
the parks was but 155 acres. In 1871 



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Betsy Williams had bequeathed to 
the city her ancestral farm, and middle 
aged citizens may remember now with 
some amusement the o])position to the 
acceptance of a park "so far out in 
the wilderness." Hayward and Tock- 
wotton Parks had been established 
in 1888, and the historic home of Hon. 
Thomas Davis had been added in 1891. 
A deep ravine, with a little brook 
emptying into the Seekonk River, 
and containing two or three acres, was 
all there was of Blackstone Park. 
Since that time an extensive pond area 
Mith its islands and surrounding 
shores has been added to Roger 



Williams Park. The other parks have 
grown and several new ones have been 
created, so that we find in 1907 a 
total of twenty parks with a combined 
area of a little over six hundred acres, 
within the city limits. Pawtucket 
possesses two good sized tracts ■ of 
park land and there are several hun- 
dred acres of unappropriated lands 
owned by the city and state that may 
be expected to take their place in 
the Metropolitan Park System. 

Many institutions have very large 
and splendid grounds. The bay shores 
in the past have furnished miles of 
opportunities for untrammeled en- 




The bluff south of Sabins Point rises steeply above the water and runs in a long shallow crescent to Bullocks Point. 
For a portion of the distance through Camp White the water front has been recognized in the provision of a modest little 
esplanade. There is a terrace shaded by many trees, and here and there a seat overlooking a tolerably good bathing beach. 



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joyment. Country clubs and boat 
clubs, "Amusement Parks" and popu- 
lar resorts, exist in unusual number 
and variety. All these have served 
to make a happy dwelling place of 
Providence, but it has been through 
the favor or for the profit of their 
owners or lessees, and public reserva- 
tions in which the. people may claim 
ownership, and be secure in their 
title are still too few. 

Roger Williams Park, of course, 
is one of the most notable public 
pleasure grounds of New England. 
There are fine forests and rolling hills 
and many miles of drives. There is 
a splendid casino with a cafe, and 
a natural history museun that is 
popular and useful. 

In the extensive chain of lakes, 
there are nearly 140 acres of water 
surface extending into so many baj's 
and inlets that they make a shore 
line of seven or eight miles. 

In the winter, throngs of skaters 
hasten to the park and it is not im- 
iisual to see 10,000 people upon the 
ice. Rut Roger Williams Park is at 
its best upon a moonlit sunmier night 
when the hot city has poured out its 
throngs by trolley car and auto and 
bicycle, or by the humbler vehicle of 
"shanks mare." 

From the gaily lighted platform 
in the lake the music of the American 
Band floats over the waters. High 
among the trees is the terrace of the 
casino; around the bandstand are 
flitting dozens of row boats and 
canoes and on all the surrounding 
hillsides are happy parties hushed to 
a decorous silence by the nuisic. 

Red and green lights from tiny 
launches dance upon the water, and 
over on the opposite boulevard are 
immense tangles of motor cars, with 
staring bright eyes. 




A Typical River Scene. 

It is all very entrancing and a 
celebrated writer, who knows about 
almost everything there is to know 
about almost all the places there 
are, once wrote that he had not 
supposed there was anything quite so 
poetically exquisite this side of Venice. 

From the newest of the parks, the 
one on Neutaconkanut Hill, the pros- 
pect embraces the homes of nearly 
seven-ninths of the population of the 
state, and the Massachusetts city of 
Fall River, is spread out in all its 



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Blackmore Pond, Cranston. 
Since Auburn and the Eden Park district have been building up so rapidly on the 
west, Blackmore Pond has come to be a place of much resort for numerous neighbors. 
It is about five minutes' walk from the new Cranston High School. 



length upon a distant hill. Narra- 
gansett Bay is visible for more than 
twenty miles and a rich panorama of 
urban activity, and suburban growth. 
of wooded hills and glistening lakes, 
extends from the feet of the beholder. 
Quite different from either of the 
others is Blackstone Park. The See- 
konk River is a broad salt estuary 
that forms the easterly limit of the 
fashionable "East Side." At its north- 
ern end the Blackstone Ri^■er plunges 
over the falls near the Main Street 
Bridge in Pawtucket. Four miles 
farther down it contracts to a narrow 
channel crossed by several street and 
railway bridges and bordered by 
ugly shops and coal pockets, and 
enters Providence Harbor. Along the 
side where the city would otherwise 
have crowded out the pleasant groves, 



the shores for about three miles have 
been preserved by the park and the 
cemeteries and public institutions 
beyond. The commanding bluffs are 
richly wooded and intelligently cul- 
tivated for most of the way, and the 
river road winding along the water's 
edge will probably be extended in 
the near future. It is proposed also, 
before the opposite bank becomes 
ruined by tenements and shops of the 
kind that are accustomed to uglify 
our water edges, that a strip of park- 
land shall be laid out along that side 
as well. 

Much nearer the centre of the city 
is Davis Park, overlooking a crowded 
and dingy manufacturing section. 
It has two high bluffs and a deep 
ravine, through which flows a much 
winding stream, and a fine old stone 



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mansion where many ])i'esi(lents and 
notables of l)v-gone generations have 
been entertained. 

In the ver}^ centre of tlie city is 
Exchange IMace, and u]) to a few years 
ago there was a great salt water Cove 
where the new Union Station stands. 
When this cove was filled, the broad 
open spaces all aroimd became im- 
mensely valnal)le. and many thrifty 
and "pi'actical" inhal)itaiits began 
counting u]) tlic millions of dollai'S 
that these lots would bring if sold 
for the sort of buildings that 
usually — to the shame of our American 
cities, it must be said — surround gi'cat 
railroad stations, but instead of letting 
them he covered with cheap restau- 



rants and fish markets and antomo- 
bile garages, the city has set aside 
for itself a supei'b square and splendi<l 
gai'den and a I'ailroad entrance that 
is at ])i'esent unsurpassed in America. 
Around this area, the most notable 
buildings are being i)laced. The City 
Hall, for many years the most credit- 
al)le structure in the city, stands at 
one end, and facing it at the opjiosite 
Mu\ is the l)eautiful Post Oflice which 
a noted lioston Ai-cliitect recently de- 
scribed as "The finest govermnent 
building outside of Washington." The 
new City Ilall Park, with the j'.anjolti 
l''ount;iin in its centre, extends along 
the whole length of the ])laza in front 
of the station to welcome the coming 




Mashapaug, The Largest Pond in Providence. 

The stream from Mashapaug supplies the Roger Williams Park lakes. 



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Scott's Pond, from Lonsdale Avenue, looking through "The Narrows." 

Scott's pond is celebrated for its beauty and for its floating island. Its shores, all, or nearly all, belong to a big mill co 
poration and are zealously kept from disfigurement, m order that the beautiful lake and parkland may give comfort to en 
ployees and add efficiency to labor. 



of almost thirty thousand (huly tra\el- 
lers. 

To further quote the address of 
the enthusiast from Boston, "Provi- 
dence has taken advantages of an 
opportunity to create a beautiful 
Civic Centre such as any city in the 
world might envy and it has been the 
first of the large cities to achieve 
results along the lines to which so 
much modern thought is being given." 

But the "Civic Centre" of Provi- 
dence is only half complete. 

In the rear of the station three 
large tracts of weed-covered land 



had been left over after filling in the 
last remaining basin of the old "Cove" 
which once covered nearly all of the 
central section of the city. These lots, 
at present, are the most conspicuous 
ol^jects that the traveller sees when 
he stops at the Providence station 
on the way from Boston to New York. 
When the Bostonian thinks of his 
own exquisite Public Garden, it makes 
him smile pityingly to hear that these 
unkempt lots have been officially 
named the Public Garden of Provi- 
dence. But time will change all 
things and as soon as the freight cars 



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the 
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have been moved away from the right 
hand corner of the picture, where 
they seem to be in the very door-yard 
of the Capitol, the city and the state 
and the raih'oads are expecting to do 
great things in the way of transform- 
ation. Over beyond is the gentle 
eminence of Capitol Hill. To the 
left stands the splendid new Normal 
School in a beautiful garden where 
once were ugl)^ foundries and the 
old State Prison. On the opposite 
side of Francis Street the land 
has been swept clear of a motley 
collection of ramshackle rookeries 
and the massive State House rears 
its classic marble portico and its 
magnificent great dome against 
sky. A happy harmonizing 
dignified lines and exquisite 
tail, is this building of the 
State; — one of the most noble 
buildings of America and an 
everlasting joy to all who look 
upon it. 

Above this plaza, upon the 
east, is the attractively varied sky 
line of College Hill, its richness of 
summer foliage obscuring all but 
the highest roofs and the grace- 
ful spires of the ''aristocratic 
section," and crowned by inter- 
esting buildings of the old Uni- 
versity. Toward the west the 
channel of the Woonasquatucket 
River, with broad streets on 
either side gives opportunity for 
a particularly desirable boulevard 
to Davis Park, and onwai-d by 
means of the new Pleasant Valley 
Parkway to the hitherto nuich 
neglected northwest corner of 
the city. 

An unexpected degree of pop- 
ular support has greeted the 
suggestion for a ^Metropolitan 
Park System and the history of 
the movement is rather interest- 
ing. Its successful outcome has 
been brought about after seven 
years of work, and by a long and 
quiet campaign on the part of the 
Public Park Association, which 
itself was revived and strength- 
ened for the purpose of giving 
support to the project of .Afetro- 
politan Parks. ]^y newspa])er 



articles; by plans and pictures and 
descriptions of the places of varied 
beauty near at hand but often almost 
unknown; by petitions and jiuljlic 
meetings and circulars and stereojjticon 
exhibitions, the Park Association con- 
stituted itself a "Publicity Dei)art- 
ment" for the ])urpose of building up 
as rapidly as miglit be, a public 
sentiment that should demand the 
preservation of the people's herit- 
age. It was realized that a serious 
obstacle would be encountered in the 
artificial division of "Greater Provi- 
dence" into nearly a dozen indej^end- 
ent cities and towns, but although the 
conditions were unusual the promo- 
ters of the enterprise found a precedent 
in Massachusetts, and so the "Metro- 
Ic- politan I'aik District" in Phode 




The Pccasset river flows along at the foot of Sockanossct Hill 
through a more or less marshy valley that should be made into a 
parkway. It would not sacrifice any properly that is of the slightest 
value, but would add in the develcpnnent of the atjoining plots. 



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The Seekonk River Road 

Such a road as this should border the upper Basin of th 

Island was conceived. This provides 
a name for a community that should 
be in fact as it is in appearance, a 
single city, and the means by which, 
so far as the park system is con- 
cerned, it may be treated as by a 
single city. 

Of course, this ])ark district as 
such, would have no revenue of its 
own and no l)orrowing power, l^ut 
it was proposed, as in Massachusetts, 
that the state as a whole should pro- 
vide the means, and reimbursement 
should be made in proper ])roportion 
by the individual cities and towns 
within the district. 

Upon the petition of the Public 
Park Association, the Legislature in 
1905 appointed a Metropolitan Park 
Commission to make a preliminary 
report and the commission was so 
constituted as to represent the extent 
of the proposed ])ark district as well 
as its varied interests, educational, 



at Swan Point Cemetery. 

e Seekonk on both sides from Red Bridge to Pawtucket 

artistic and commercial. The mem- 
bers, except four representatives of 
the Park Association who had given 
much previous study to the problem, 
were appointed by the titles of offices 
which they held, as mayors of cities 
and presidents of town councils, 
or as directors or representatives of 
leading institutions. Thus the extent 
of the Metropolitan District was 
practically designated; the non-par- 
tisan character of the commission 
assured in advance; and in the two 
directions that opposition and adverse 
discussion might otherwise have been 
looked for, no question was ever 
raised. Nor did any political con- 
sideration ever appear, though park 
movements in other places have often 
suffered or been stifled by them. The 
work was wholly a labor of love on 
the part of all those wiio promoted it. 
The first Commission promptly re- 
ported a plan for aJMetropolitan Park 



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83 



S,ystem, substantially along the lines 
already advocated by the Public 
Park Association, and it received the 
unqualified support of the newspapers 
and of more than a score of leading 
organizations of every sort, who indi- 
cated by their endorsement, in how 
very many vital ways such a project 
touches all classes of the people. The 
Commission was continued, and in 
1906 a much more elaborate report 
was presented to the Legislature to- 
gether with a request that the people 
of the state be given an opportunity 
to vote upon a proposition for a 
bond issue of $250,000 for the begin- 
ning of the work. The Legislature 
of 1906 approved this suggestion 
without dissenting voice, and when 
the electors came to decide the ques- 
tion at the following state election in 
November, they too approved it by 
a vote of two to one. In only one 
large town in the state was there 
an adverse majority. This vote al- 
lowed the legislature to issue the 
bonds and to provide ]iro]ier machin- 
ery to bring the Metropolitan Park 
System into being, and this the Leg- 
islature did; asrain acting unanimous- 



ly; on the last day and the last liour 
of the session of 1907. 

Thus through all the toilsome stei)s, 
of which only few have been mentioned, 
was the project made a thing of 
l)opular demand, and thus it was 
assured that the dreams of its jm-o- 
jectors should become realities. Rhode 
Lsland became the second state in the 
Union to institute a Metropolitan 
Park System. 

Upon the plan of this Metro]r.)litan 
Park District, within an area of about 
eleven miles by seven, that is occu])ied 
in 1907 by about 392,000 peo])le and 
has the State House as the geograi)hi- 
cal centre, are noted the valleys of 
nine rivers of well assorted sizes, 
the shores of the bay, of whicii no 
part now belongs to the public, and 
something like twenty ponds and 
lakes. There are precipitous hill- 
sides from which gorgeous views are 
obtained. There are fragments of 
woodland that still remain to be the 
joy and benefit of their trespassing 
neiglil)ors. 

Such places, eventually, nmst be 
reserved for public lands, or degener- 
ate into slums. When we choose 




From the Ball Ground, Beside Leonard's Pond, Looking South. 



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Overlooking lower Olneyville section. 



tlie former alternative, we tliereby 
add value to tlie surrounding lands, 
and to the city as a wliole, tliat iuA-ari- 
ably repays all the outlay many fold. 
But let no one advocate that tliey 
be made into parks in the old fasliion- 
ecl understanding of tliat word, for 
up to recent times city parks have 
furnished a very bad and fantastic 
imitation of nature, and even though 
they haA'e afforded refreshing scenes 
of grass and flowers amid tlie walls of 
the city, they liave generally been 
intended to be looked at with awe 
rather than used with full delight. 
People were supposed to stroll de- 
corously through wonderful curving 
paths and among magic mazes of 
geometrical designs with warnings 
on every hand to keep off the grass 
under threat of capital punishment. 
Nature was fantastically caricatured 
by unhappy hedges trimmed into 
weird shapes, and artificial lakes with 
edges made into prim angles and 
parabolic or cUabolic curves. Atroc- 
ious iron dogs glared at crazy quilts 



of fiowers made into shapes of things 
that never existed on sea or land. 
Such places served a certain purpose 
in interesting and surprising the eye 
even as did the fragile wax bric-a-brac 
creations vmder the glass domes on 
the marble topped parlor tables. 

The inner ring of the proposed 
parkways is about eighteen miles in 
extent, while the circuit which en- 
closes Pawtucket on the north and 
traverses the Pawtuxet ^"alley u]5on 
the south would add perhaps twenty 
miles more. The plans avoid the 
occupation of valuable real estate 
so successfully that comparatively 
little costly land is called for in the 
provision of park areas many himdred 
acres in extent. 

There is a rich variety of scenery. 
There are long and beautiful beaches 
upon the bay at Bullock's Point and 
Gaspee Point, the latter place made 
famous by the first act of rebellion 
in the Revolutionary War. There 
is the commanding bluff of Field's 
Point, whose old fortifications tell 



RHODE ISLAND OLD HOME WEEK 



again of the Revolution, and look 
down iii)on miles of glistening bay 
and busy harbof. l'"i-oni here we 
may proceed througli the woodlands 
of Roger Williams Park to the broad 
waters of Mashapaug and on to the 
exquisite little Lake of Isles, and then 
to the winding Pocasset, now broad- 
ened into lakes, and again contracted 
to a deep and narrow channel through 
sedgy meadows, with the great rocky 
face of Neutaconkanut Hill rising 
high above the fertile valley. There 
is the busy Woonasquatucket turning 
the wheels of great mills, but anon, 
resting from its toil and gliding 
peacefully through the Merino meadow 
wliere the toiling thousands of the 
Olneyville district are wont to con- 
gregate. 

No sight of busy cities or of com- 
mercial strife disturbs the sweet 
serenity of the Lincoln Woods, where 
the primeval forest borders the waters 
of its gem of lakes. Over the borders 
■of its encircling hills, the roar of 
traffic and the clash of industry comes 
floating softly as might the hum of 
bees or music of waters. There is 
the exquisite Scott's Pond, its shores 
preserved from defilement and main- 
tained already as a recreation place 



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by a great mill corporation which owns 
it. There is the broad valley of the 
P.lackstone, surrounded by steep bluffs 
crowned by pine groves, and full of 
circuitous lagoons and fertile islands; 
the Ten Mile River, daintily winding 
under the branches of great trees or 
rushing swiftly through the craggy glen 
at Hunts Mills. There is the broader 
Pawtuxet upon which thousands of 
canoeistsand l)oating enthusiasts enjoy 
the summer da3's;' and the lake-like 
Seekonk which Will really be a lake 
when the dam at its narrow mouth shall 
have been built. These ))laces have been 
free in all the past, and l)y the making 
of the Metropolitan Park System, 
may still in all the future be the 
breathing ])laces andrecreationgrounds 
at the doors of a great and ever in- 
creasing industrial ])o])ulation. A 
strong and growing sentiment has 
demanded their acquirement and pre- 
servation, and their harmonious join- 
ing in one grand chain as a magnifi- 
cent possession for all posterity; a 
public domain in which the poorest 
of the people may gain delight and 
strength and claim part ownership; 
a domain that all the wealth of kings 
could not create where nature had 
been less kind. 




The Seekonk River and Blackstone Park. 

From East Providence Shore, near Red Bridge. Looking North. 



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Things about Providence that People do not K 



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BY 



JAMES YOUNG 




INCE it is true that 
a prophet has little 
honor in his own 
family, a city may 
well occn])y the same 
position in regard to 
its own community. 
Its praises may go 
unsung, its beauties be left unseen, its 
wealth and prosperity be unknown and 
its most precious treasures hidden. 
Familiarity makes all seem of little 
account and it is only when the great- 
ness of what it ])ossesses is put before 
them, and its glories exploited that citi- 
zens and neighbors alike take notice. 

Such, at any rate, is the position 
that Providence seems to hold today, 
and half the great things for which 
she is noted afar, are practically un- 
known within her city limits. That, 
compared with her population, she 
is the richest city in the Union, is 
generally believed, but that she has 
several art galleries and museums 
that in the richness of their exhibits 
are second to none in the world, and 
a library that has a widespread fame 
throughout Europe and America is 
not so commonly known, nor is it 
realized that one of her private 
citizens has housed under his roof 
the finest Shakespearian Library in 
existence, and that another of her 
public spirited townsmen has the 
largest collection of the works of 
one of the world's greatest painters, 
or that to the city herself has been 
left a legacy of great deeds that have 
given character and impress to the 
annals of American history. 

All these things and many others 
that are true in regard to Providence 



furnish the reasons why she should 
be distinguished among cities, with- 
out regard to her size, and her ])lace 
on the map. 

This very place on tlie maj). how- 
ever, gives her advantages over many 
other cities which are of incalculable 
benefit. Sheltered as she is i)y her 
northern hills from the severe storms 
of the New England winter, and with 
the heat of the sununer sun tempered 
by the prevailing breezes from her 
broad bay, she enjoys a climate the 
year round that is more even and less 
susceptible to violent changes than 
that of any other large city in New 
England. It is mild in winter and 
invigorating and liealthful in sununer 
and for manufactming purposes al- 
most without a rival. 

Like old London and Boston of 
our own country, both of which have 
a great ])roportion of their people 
living beyond their corporate limits, 
Providence is tlie centre of a metropo- 
litan group of po])ulous places. These 
add gi-eatly to her quoteil population, 
and make her in reality a city within 
a greater city. 

A still larger circle — that which 
marks the limits of a day's con- 
venient excursion to the salt watere 
of Narragansett Bay or to anything 
of special interest which Providence 
may have to offer at any time contains 
more people than can be found in any 
similar circle anywhere in tlie Western 
Hemisphere except around New '^••rk 
and Philadelpliia. Her surroundings 
are rich in natural beauties; in fertile 
valleys, in rolling hills and winding 
rivers; and in the broad riches and pic- 
turesque inlets of Narragansett Bay. 



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Manning Hall, Erected 1834 



Of the Metropolitan Park System, 
which will eventually connect all the 
outlying towns of Greater Providence 
into one complete and attractive 
whole, much has already been said. 
When finished, with its miles of 
smooth driveways, its beautiful wooded 
parks, traversed by winding streams 
and dotted with many lakes, it 
promises to make Providence notable 
for its civic attractions, where park 



driving, of whatever sort it may be 
will be a pleasure that may be readily 
enjoyed by all, and with a wealth of 
recreation places within easy access 
of its civic centre. Roger Williams 
Park which was established long 
before the Metropolitan Park System 
was thought of, is the great pleasure 
ground of the city and already one 
of the notable parks of the coun- 
try. 



RHODE ISLAND OLD HOME WEEK 



Of the famous galleries, museums 
and libraries, with which the city is 
enriched there are at least half a 
score, all splendid of their kind, and 
all conducted on broad and generous 
principles. At the head of the list 
is the Rhode Island School of Design, 
one of the finest institutions for the 
applied arts in the world. It has 
been liberally endowed and the work 
of many of the pupils is to be found 
in mau}^ places wdiere the fine arts 
are brought into manufacturing uses. 

The Pendleton House, which is 
a ])art of the School, is a veritable 
treasurehouse, complete both in its 
building and its contents. 

In the Annmary Brown Memorial, 
which has recently been opened, ProAi- 
dence has a most unusual museiun 
and one that cannot be duplicated in 
this country. It contains a wonderful 
collection of family relics of vast in- 
trinsic value, first editions of volumes, 
many of them out of print, rare 
old engravings, works of old masters 
and paintings by modern artists. 
It is a collection intended as a means of 
public education, and as such it 
cannot fail to serve its purpose to 
coming generations in this city. The 
building itself is a granite structure 
simple in its lines and so arranged 
that the rich store it contains can 
be seen to its best advantage. The 
list of family relics is a long one and 
includes some beautiful china, silver 
snuff boxes, and a rare old Delhi 
shawl, portraits and some complete 
costumes of the' 17th and ISth cen- 
turies. 

The collection of old books in the 
museum numbers 530 volumes, and 
many late bibliographers are in- 
debted for facts gathered from these. 
In its examples of early printing this 
collection rivals the one contained 
in the celebrated Plantin Museum 
of Antwerp. Some of these books 
date as far back as the 13th century 
and are curious examples of a period 
long before the art of printing was 
]ierfected. One volume especially 
sought by experienced book collectors 
is the "Regulae Cancellarie," printed 
in Rome is 1484. It is interesting 



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from the fact of its queer old gothic 
type and the so-called illustrations 
which it contains. Some other famous 
books are the "Biblia Pauperum," 
or 'TUble of the Poor," of which there 
are three or four in the collection. 
Two small volumes attributed to 
the first printers of Gutenberg, the 
•'Cologne Chronicles," printed in 1490, 
and two specimens of the works of 
the first printing known to \'enice. 

Possibly the gem of this collection 
of rare books is one called "Lactantius" 
the work of Sweynheym and Pannarty, 
the most celebrated printers in Italy. 
In this volume occurs the first Greek 
type used, and the beauty of the 
])rinting and the paper make it a 
superb example of typography. The 
founder of this memorial, Gen. Rush 
C. Hawkins, has had many temj^ting 
offers to part with this little volume, 
but all of them have been refused. 

Of the collection of paintings one's 
interest may be easily divided between 
those of the old masters and the 
modern works of art. The galleries 
devoted to both of these displays 
of pictures are in themselves a work 
of art. They ai'e dignified apartments 
of noble proportions, admirably light- 
ed and in every way adapted to their 
uses. Of the old masters there are 
46 exam])les, each a masterpiece. 
Of the most notable the first that 
greets the eye is the "Portrait of a 
Young Man" by Rembrandt, an 
unrivalled example of the famous 
dutch painter. There is also a portrait 
by that other marvellous painter of 
Holland, Hans Holbein, and contrast in 
the works of these two is strongly 
brought out. An example of English 
portraiture is a portrait of the Countess 
of Waldagrave by Sir Thomas Wallace. 
It is a full length figure, remarkable 
for the brilliancy of its colors and it 
occupies a conspicuous place in the 
gallery. Another portrait, is that 
of the Duke of Richmond by Van 
Dyck, a Sir Peter Lely, an Angelica 
Kauffman, two landscapes by Pierre 
Patel, some figures by Teniei-s and 
many others of great note. 

In the modern gallery one of the 
most conspicuous ornaments is from 



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the brush of Gari Melchers. It is 
executed in his most delightful style 
and is quite worthy the place it 
occupies. There is also an example 
of Eastman Johnson's best, one by 
Edwin Lord Weeks, one by John 
Trumbull, the American Historical 
Painter, a Thomas Hicks, a Seymour 
J. Guy's and in fact of the list of 29 
paintings nearly every one deserves 
mention. Much more might be written 
about the Annmary Memorial 
Museum but lack of space prevents. 
It is a beautiful memorial and a noble 
and lasting one. 

The John Carter Brown Library, 
which occupies a beautiful building 
on the Middle Campus of Brown 
University, contains a superb col- 
lection of books and manuscripts, 
of value too great to compute. 

Nearly everything that has ever been 
printed on the subject of American 
history is contained in this library 
and there does not exist anywhere 
as important and exhaustive a number 
of books on one subject as this. 
From the days when the Western 
Hemisphere was an unknown portion 
of the globe whose wonders and 
resources were undreamed of until 
the present time, when half of its 




Drawn by Sidney Burleigh 

Gilbert Stuart's Brithplace 



history as yet to be told, all has been 
collected for this library. It is 
compiled from every language and 
is something at which posterity may 
marvel. 

Of other museums the R. I. His- 
torical Society has a gallery full of 
rare manuscripts and relics, and the 
Atheneum during its long existence 
has gathered a valuable library. The 
Natural History Museum at Roger 
Williams Park is popular and useful 
as well, and there are one or two 
smaller museums that are good of 
their kind. 

One of Providence's most noted 
ornaments is Brown University on 
College Hill. It was originally called 
the Rhode Island College and was 
established at Warren in 1764. In 
1770 it was removed to Providence. 
Its beautiful campus "Under the 
Elms" is a short walk up the hill from 
Market Square. "Pembroke" is the 
department for girls, which has several 
fine buildings of its own. The oldest 
building is University Hall, famous 
as the headquarters of our French 
Allies during the Revolutionary War, 
and as the building wherein George 
Washington received his "LL. D." 
Several splendid libraries are con- 
nected with the University. The one 
known as Brown University con- 
tains a notable collection including 
the Harris Collection of American 
poetry, largest of its kind in the world, 
and the Wheaton collection of Rhode 
Island history. 

The Providence Public Library is 
world famous for methods that have 
been copied extensively in Europe 
as well as in America. It is celebrated 
for its means of administration, for its 
reference and children departments, 
and for special collections, including 
the Harris Library in Slavery and 
the Civil War, the Williams collection 
of Folk-lore, the standard library 
of best literature and the Rhode 
Island Medical Society's Library con- 
sisting of 2200 volumes. 

Of the private collections in Provi- 
dence one at least has no equal in the 
world. It is the Shakespearian col- 
lection belonging to Marsden J. Perry, 



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'4 



The Carrie Tower, Erected 1904 



and is absolutely without peer. Even; 
thing pertaining to the works ot 
England's greatest poet has been 
brought together by Mr. Perry and 
as it stands now, it is a collection to 
be envied by all students of Shakes- 
peare. , ,, 

Mr. Richard Canfield owns the 
most important collection of the 



works of Whistler to l>e found m 
this countrv. and i>robably the 
largest and^ best gallery of modern 
French painting in America, although 
there are several other citizens of 
Providence whose collections would 
be in the "World's Famous' cla.ss 
if they were generally known, iwo 
of Gilbert Stuart's beautiful and 




John Carter Brown Library, Erected 1 904 



famous paintings of Washington are to 
be found in Providence, one in the house 
of a private coUection and one in the 
reception room of the State House. 

The diversity of the clubs in and 
around Providence gives a vivid idea 
of the character of its people and of 
their occupations and enjoyments. 
Besides an unusual assortment of 
purely business clubs and social clubs, 
of which the Hope Club is the most 
notable there is the University Club 
which occupies a fine colonial mansion, 
the Providence Art Club which holds 
many interesting exhibitions and enter- 
tainments and possesses a quaint 
old house of rare fascination. There 
are clubs of many nationalities some 
of them extremely prosperous like 
the Deutsche Gesellschaft and some 
of the Italian Societies. 

Other clubs of much individuality 
have splendid estates on the bay 
shores, like the celebrated Squantum 



Club and the Pomham Club and there 
are many Country Clubs of more 
limited grounds and with splendid 
tennis courts and golf links, such as 
Agawam and the Wannamoisett. 

There are Cricket Clubs and Polo 
Clubs with grounds of their own, 
and Boat Clubs of every size and kind, 
like the Narragansett Boat Club 
that goes in for rowing, the Rhode 
Island and the Edgewood and other 
yacht clubs that number a thousand 
or more boat owners among their 
members, and of Canoe Clubs there 
are eight or ten at least, with houses 
along the Pawtuxet and the Ten Mile 
Rivers. 

Great popular resorts and amuse- 
ment parks also abound. The shores 
of the Bay and the picturesque nooks 
along the rivers have furnished the 
setting for such places as Vanity 
Fair and Rocky Point, Rhodes on the 
Pawtuxet and many others that 



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Fire Place in Main Hall, John Carter Brown Library 



cater to great throngs. Some of 
these resorts at times take care of 
more than 50,000 visitors on a single 
day, and when one considers the 
number of attractions that are always 
open, particularly in summer, it would 
seem as if all Rhode Island, as well 



as its neighbors from over the Masssa- 
chusetts borders must spend all their 
days and nights in pursuit of pleasure. 
But the Rhode Islanders are, in 
reality, industrious and somewhat 
frugal, and they have more money 
in Savings Banks than any other 



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people. The banking institutions well 
attest the general prosperity. One 
of them has deposits of over $50,000,- 
000 and there are numerous others 
that contain from $5,000,000 to 
$35,000,000. One-twentieth of all 
the wealth of the United States is 
within 50 miles of Providence. 

Rhode Island is rich in the high 
character of its people. Its artisans 
are unusually well paid. Its in- 
dustries are remarkably diversified. 
The Metropolitan District, if it were 
all one city in name as it is in fact, 
would rank in population eleventh 
among the great cities of the country. 
In manufactures in 1900, it was 
sixth among industrial centres for 
capital invested and wage-earners 
employed, and fifth in the annual 
amount of wages paid. $143,000,000 
of products were being annually 
produced in factories which had a 
capital of $140,787,000 and paid $31,- 
687,953. to their 75,000 employees. 
The industries of the city proper 
were represented by about two-thirds 
of the above figures. Since 1900, 
according to the census report, the 
manufactures of Rhode Island as a 
whole have increased more rapidly 
than those of anv other State. 



The products of Providence are 
those of skilled labor and art. The 
City stands first in America in the 
production of fine woolen fabrics, 
in jewelry and silverware, and second 
in several other industries, fine ma- 
chines and machine tools being among 
them. The Gorham Silver Works, 
The American Screw Factory, the 
Brown & Sharpe iNIachine shops, and 
the Nicholson File Company's plant are 
the greatest of their kind in the world. 

In tliese various ways "Clreater 
Providence" is well provided. There 
are other ways in which it is deficient. 
It lacks wide streets and the new 
parts of the city are growing in 
a hit or miss sort of way without 
any proper plan. Although it is 
deficient in fine avenues of the 
boulevard character, there are S3veral 
great problems of local transporta- 
tion to be overcome to relieve the 
congestion of the down town streets, 
and provide for traffic beyond College 
Hill. It lacks adequate railroad ap- 
proaches from the west and north 
which are called for by its position 
of commercial advantage at the head 
of Narragansett Bay, the natural 
distributing point for New England 
of all things that come in ships. 





Narragansett Terrace, Below Crescent Park 

A fine beach extends to the end of Bullock's Point. On account of its excellent and extreme 
accessibility, this is suggested as a public bathing place. 



Rhode Island as a Summering Place 

BY 



FREDERICK HUNT 




T has often been said 
that no simihii' area 
in the United States 
is as diversified as 
is Rhode Island in 
landscape and con- 
tour, in foliage, in 
flora and fauna, and 
in geological formation. From these 
things it has come to ])ass that no State 
in the Union possesses so great a diver- 
sity of opportunities for summer pas- 
times and recreation, and since Rhode 
Island is so very densely populated and 
is surrounded by rich and populous 
states, it is not to be wondered at 
that her beaches and her wave-swept 
rocks, her lakes and her hills, and 
the winding shores of her glorious 
great bay tempt thousands to make 
their summer homes amid her charms. 
? Rhode Island is much less variable 
in climate than the other New Eng- 
land States, although there is con- 
siderable difference between the north- 
ern and the southern portions. The 
foliage of the north meets here the 



foliage of the south and many species 
that are of distinctly northern charac- 
ter and are not found anywhere south 
of Rhode Island, grow side by side 
with other varieties that here find 
their northern limit. 

There is a splendid assortment of 
the beautiful things of nature; broad 
glistening beaches, and wild, wooded 
hills, rocky cliffs overhanging the 
ocean, hundred of miles of bay shores, 
winding, rushing rivers and dense 
tangled forests where the advent of 
man is as 3^et scarcely known. 

There are man}'' lakes and there are 
barren sand dunes: there are ex- 
quisite and fashionable summer places 
that vie with any in the world and 
there are secluded camps where nature 
is untroubled in her luxuriance. 

Although Rhode Island is growing 
in density of population faster than 
any other state of the Union, she 
nevertheless has a larger proportion 
of wooded area than an}- other, and 
almost within sight of her bustling 
cities, there are trails through the 



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Near the Rhode Island Yacht Club, Pawtuxet 



tanglewood that have survived in 
much of their primitive wildness, 
since tlie days when the red men made 
them. There are quaint hamlets, 
lovely farms and everything that is 
oldest and newest in our civilization. 
There are splendid State roads that 
give ready access to every part of the 
State, and Rhode Island is an auto- 
mobilist's paradise. 

For the poor as well as the rich 
Rhode Island is lavish with her sum- 
mer offerings. The trolley car and 
the humble bicycle, will take one 
out from the cities to scenes of varied 
beauty and delight. The man with 
the big steam yacht who smokes long 
cigars upon its deck, finds Narragan- 
sett and Newport much to his liking. 
The sturdy chap with his feet braced 
against the tiller of a cat boat, or the 
captain of a large green canoe working 
his way clown a dancing stream under 
overhanging boughs find equal oppor- 
tunities for unalloyed delight. 

There are great and splendid hotels, 
and there are tenting places on the 
hillsides where thousands find health 
and strength and happiness. 

Narragansett Bay, the chief asset 
of picturesque as well as commercial 
interest in the State, is about thirty 
miles long and from two to twelve 
miles wide. Its shores are extremely 
varied and deeply indented by a 
multitude of small bays and harbors. 
The three main entrances, between 
the large islands, — Aquidneck, upon 
which Newport is situated, and Con- 
anicut upon which is Jamestown, are 
deep and direct, yet well protected 



from the ocean. There are miles 
upon miles of shores bordered by 
beautiful summer estates, and fine 
old towns snugly tucked away behind 
long headlands. 

In thesummer, multitudes of campers 
occupy all the vantage points that 
are unbuilt, and upon the sparkling 
waters of the bay vast numbers of 
pleasure boats, from tiny canoes to 
great crowded excursion steamers 
are forever in the view. Rhode 
Island is famous for its boating facili- 
ties of every kind. 

The back country towns present 
many attractions. Scores of aban- 
doned farms, which until the advent 
of trolley were as difficult of access 
as if they were hundreds of miles 
away, have been bought by private 
clubs and individuals for country 
estates and there are many nooks and 
corners that yet remain, like islands 
of wilderness surrounded by the throb- 
ingsea of civilization. The old "South 
County" in particular is a country 
of marked individuality and charm 
and its enthusiastic devotees have 
built many bungalows and camps 
along its bay and ocean fronts and 
beside the still waters of its forest 
bordered lakes. 

The chief rivers of the State are 
the Blackstone, the Pawtuxet, the 
Wood River, the Usquepaug, the 
Queens River and the Pawcatuck. 
They form a network of waterways, by 
wdiich, with slight "carries," the State 
may be traveled in many directions 
with as much fascination to the canoeist 
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The Indian names of these hills 
and lakes and streams are a source 
of joy to the stranger who revels in 
such specimens as Shumunkanuc and 
Watchang and Quonochon.taug. 

It is not to be wondered at that 
there are summer clubs, like Sciuantum 
and Pomham, upon the bay shore, 
that are world famous; that yachts 
abound on Narragansett's waters; 
that canoeing and rowing and salt 
water bathing seem to be a second 
nature to most Rhode Islanders. 
Nor is it to be wondered at that 
Rhode Island's skill in naval de- 
signing has produced the great "cuji 
defenders" that have held supremacy 
against all foreign challenge. 

New])ort, the "Queen of Watering 
Places" is famous for. many things. 
It is the most fashionable resort in 
America. The "Cottages" or villas 
of its summer residents are magnifi- 
cent in the extreme. Its cliffs and 
its beaches, its superb ocean drive, 
and its stately shaded "Avenue," 
are known throughout the world. 
Its history from its beginning in 1638, 
is full of incident and charm. One 
of the greatest of naval stations is 
located here and it is an army post 
of much importance. The antiquarian 
and the artist will find cjuite as n\uch 
of delight in the old town as the gen- 
eral tourist or follower of fashion will 
in the new. 

The natural setting of Newport, 
where bay and ocean meet, is ex- 
quisite in the extreme, and the methods 
of getting there are most attractive. 
But to the tourist, Newport is recom- 
mended for a day's excursion, as the 
hotel accommodations are quite in- 
adequate. 

Narragansett Pier is only a little 
less famous than Newport, It is 
celebrated for its great hotels, its 
superb bathing beach, its splendid 



summer residences and the varied 
assortment of delightful drives. The 
outlook is directly upon the ocean 
at the mouth of tiie "West Passage" 
of Narragansett liay. A famous dri\e 
leads to a rocky corner of the State 
at Point .Judith. 

Watch Hill is another celebrated 
hotel and cottage resort. It has a 
fine ocean beach and still waters for 
batliing and sailing and it guards the 
western entrance of Long Island Sound. 

Very different from any of these 
places is Block Island, the "Isle of 
Manisees." It is a barren, wind- 
swept isle far out to sea;— very un- 
dulating in its surface, with a multi- 
tude of fresh water ponds in the deep 
hollows between its rolling hills. On 
the south shore are majestic cliffs 
that arc forever washing away and 
bringing great sandbars around to the 
Northern end of the Island. There 
are mmierous big hotels, a splendid 
bathing beach and some jileasant 
drives including the one to Beacon 
Hill, which is several hundred feet 
Iiigh. A hardy race of mariners in- 
habit the island, although the busi- 
ness of catering to summer guests is 
preeminent. 

Of the smaller and less fashionable 
resorts, the cottage colonies and the 
places of popular excursions, the 
mere mention of them would extend 
far beyond the limits of this article. 

To those who know them best, 
Bristol and Seaconnet, Warwick and 
Saunderstown, Jamestown and Matu- 
nuck are magic names. 

But whether one sees fit to dwell 
amid the abodes of fashion, in a marble 
palace upon the cliffs, or finds his 
ideal of hap])iness and home in some 
little brown house in the woods by the 
lakeside, Rhode Island is marvellously 
lavish with her gifts to all who have 
eves to see, or the taste to appreciate. 



The Providence Board of Trade 



BY 



GEORGE H. WEBB. 




VER since the for- 
mation of a National 
Board of Trade, the 
Providence associa- 
tion has always been 
affiliated with the 
central body. In 
June, 1868, the Board 
instituted action that resulted in the 
adoption of equitable regulations 
governing the cotton trade in Provi- 
dence. In September of that year, 
Freeman P. Little was elected Secre- 
tary and served until January 15, 
1897, when he was succeeded by the 
present Secretary, George H. Webb. 
There were weighty issues before 
the people in the early history of the 
organization, when Thomas A. Jenckes 
of Rhode Island was a mighty force 
in the greater legislation of the United 
States. In January, 1869, Amos D. 
Smith introduced resolutions urging 
congress to reform the Civil Service 
on the basis of Mr. Jenckes' act for 
competitive examination, and on the 
following month the Board supported 
his act for the improvement of the 
Bankrupt Law. 

In May, 1870, acting upon recom- 
mendation of its President, Henry 
Lippitt, the Board secured the erection 
of the Narragansett Hotel and the 
Providence Opera House by separate 
corporations. The contribution of 
$3,161 for the aid of the French suf- 
ferers in the Franco-German War, is 
instanced as but one of the many 
charitable movements directly initiat- 
ed by the Board or supported by it. 



Gne can hardly remember the time 
when people did not scold "Old Prob- 
abilities," and at the same time raise 
or lower their umbrellas according to 
his varying predictions. In 1871 the 
Board was active in the movement for 
the establishment of the government 
weather bureau, which was a step in 
civilization. 

In Bankruptcy Laws, from the first 
Jenckes' Act, the Board has mani- 
fested a lively interest. Vigorous ac- 
tion was taken in favor of subsidizing 
the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, 
in adopting the metric system, in 
promoting the Nicaragua Canal, the 
Inter-State Commerce Acts, and the 
regulation of Pilotage, the Sound 
Money Question, the Nelson Bank- 
ruptcy Bill, Reforms in the Considar 
Service, the work of National Irriga- 
tion and Forest Reserves, the 
Estabhshment of a Department of 
Commerce and Industry, the Paris 
Exposition of 1900, the Philadelphia 
Commercial Museum's Exposition of 
1890, the relief of Jacksonville suffer- 
ers, for which the Board raised $1,000. 
In the line of measures more directly 
affecting Rhode Island the Board has 
been in constant communication witli 
our Senators and Representatives in 
Congress. The excavation of Provi- 
dence Harbor and the deepening of the 
channel through Narragansett Bay to 
the ocean, tlie Harbor of Refuge in 
Block Island; the Station at Brenton's 
Reef; the light on Whale Rock; the 
Harbor of Refuge off Point Judith; 
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cut; and the widening and deepen- 
ing of the passage at Stone Bridge, 
are among the more important im- 
provements urged upon Congress. 

The Providence J^oard of Trade lias 
exerted a constant and most lieneficial 
influence on the business affairs of 
I'l'ovidence. It has done much to 
aUay tlie old prejudices and business 
jealousies of the days of small things. 
It has brought about many improve- 
ments, some of them by direct action, 
and others as the result of social inter- 
course between members. 

The Board was organized in the 
year 1868, "for the purpose of pro- 
moting trade and commerce in the 
City of Providence and vicinity," ac- 
cording to thewordsof its charter. The 
most influential and active merchants 
and manufacturers then engaged in 
our city and neighboring districts, 
were included among the members. 
The majority of the founders lia\'e 
ceased their earthly labors, but the 
excellent influence of their active 
career remains, as an inheritance foi' 
the community. All important entei- 
prises tending to the industrial mid 
commercial development of our City 
and State have been encouraged and 
promoted by the efficient action of this 
couunercial exchange, and the stead- 
fast and conserving authority of the 
institution has ever been felt. 

At the rooms, instant (juotations of 
the market from all parts of the 
world are collected by direct wire and 
displayed on the large stock boards, 
and while these rooms are not literally 
a market or place of exciiange, they 
afford the chief opportunity in our 
city for those amenities and courtesies 
that promote the ordinary intercourse 
of trade. 



In February, 1877, the headquar- 
ters were removed to the Wilcox 
Building, and three years later, were 
transferred to the present location in 
the historic City Building, known as 
the Old Market House, <jii .Market 
Square. 

Lyman B. l-rieze and Ivlward 
Pearce were among the first pro- 
moters of the Board. Amos 1). Smitli 
presided at the ])reliminary meeting. 
These gentlemen, with Stephen T. 
Olney and Thomas J. Hill, were the 
committee on ]jlan of organization, and 
Alexander Farnum was temporary 
Secretary. March 18, 1869, the or- 
ganization was completed, and the 
following officers were elected: Presi- 
dent, Truman Beckwith; \'ice-Presi- 
dents, Amos D. Siuitli, William .1. King: 
Directors, Amos (1 BarstoAv, Tully 
I). Howen, Amasa Sprague, Henry 
lippitt, William (loddard, Thomas J. 
Hill, James Y. Smith, I,yiii;in \'>. 
Frieze, Stephen T. Olney, Allen O. 
Peck, (ieorge C. Nightingale, A\'illi;ini 
II. Hopkins, Albert Dailey, .Io,><eph 
H. Bourne, Richard E. Hamlin ; Treas- 
urer, Joshua Wilbur: Committee on 
Arbitration, Edward D. Pearce, Moses 
B. Lockwood, Z. Chaffee. James T. 
Rhodes, Royal C. Taft, Franklin H. 
Richmond, Alexander Farnum. After- 
wards Louis W. Clark was made jicr- 
nument Secretary. 

The personality of these men in- 
dicates the representative character 
of the institution. There was no more 
typical citizen in his generation than 
Trunuin Beckwith, who possessed 
([ualities of enterprise, sagacity and 
prudence in harmonious relation, and 
whose sayings and sage maxims have 
been quoted in the market for two 
generations. 



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Market Square in 1850. 



One of the first acts of the Board 
of Trade was to stir the City Council 
and the community generally, for the 
introduction of "an abundant supply 
of pure water." 

Municipal affairs are always business 
interests. The problem of sewers and 
sewerage has been investigated many 
times. Railway and terminal facili- 
ties have received much attention, and 
the present great improvements, now 
substantially completed, ar? largely 
due to the efforts of the Board of Trade. 
The extension of the Springfield 
Railway was agitated, and finally ac- 
complished. The movements in our 
own state for "good roads" have 
from the first, been vigorously sup- 
ported and will undoubtedly continue 
to be until the present fine system has 
been completed. The officers of the 
Board have worked unceasingly for 
the development of our harbor and 
the building up of an export trade. 



The year 1897 was made notable 
by the Providence Board of Trade's 
Exhibition of Rhode Island Industries, 
held in the Fuller Building, at the 
time of the visit of the Delegates from 
the South American Republics to this 
country, under the auspices of the 
Philadelphia Commercial Museum. 

The new post office which is now 
nearly completed in Providence is 
largely due to the work done by the 
Board of Trade in inviting to Provi- 
dence the House Committee on Public 
Buildings to personally investigate our 
present inadequate facilities for hand- 
ling the mail, and the Board has also 
been influential in securing extra 
carriers for the Providence office. 

In 1903, a bill emanating from the 
Providence Board of Trade, was enact- 
ed in the General Assembly, author- 
izing the appropriation of $35,000 for 
the purpose of enabling the State of 
Rhode Island to be properly represent- 



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ed at the St. Louis Exposition. An- 
other bill was enacted on the same day, 
(treating a Harbor Commission to 
investigate and report upon the con- 
dition in Providence Harbor. The 
enactment of the hitter bill, which 
materially affects the maritime interest 
of Rhode Island, was the culmination 
of years of work of the Harbor 
Committee of the Providence Board. 

In projects like the highly successful 
one for the establishment of a 
Metropolitan Park System, the Board 
of Trade has been a most effective 
factor, and in raising funds for charit- 
able purposes it has been conspicuously 
prominent, its members contributing 
nearly $5,000 to allay the suffering due 
to the Coal Strike of 1903; more than 
.S20,000 for the San Francisco disastei-, 
and a generous subscription in the 
suppression of tuberculosis in factories. 

One of the most important depart- 
ments of the Board of Trade is the 
monthly journal published under the 
management of its Secretary, and 
mailed monthly to every quarter of 
the globe. This is a live exponent of 
New England Manufactures of great 
value for the dissemination of news in 
regard to the trade and commerce 
which it represents. Every number 
is fittingly illustrated; it has a sub- 
scription list in tlie City of Providence 
alone, of more than 1,200; and as an 
advertising medium is as valuable 
as any general trade ])a])ei' in the 
country. 

The Secretary's office is supplied 
with all the legal blank forms required 
in ordinary business transactions, 
furnished to mend^ers without charge. 



together with the services of a Notary 
Public. It serves as a general clearing 
house for mercantile information. 

Inquiries regarding houses in cei-tairi 
lines of manufacture and traile are 
referred to members of the Board of 
Trade representing the ))articular line 
of inquiry, and, in many instances, 
valuable correspcjndents have resulted. 

The Secretary's office provides much 
information for busy business men, 
who cannot have time or facilities to 
investigate for themselves, and aims 
to give to those who make most fre- 
quent demands upon it a full realiza- 
tion of its value. 

But the mendjershi]) of the Boai'd 
of Trade will not fittingly promote the 
commercial interests of the City of 
Providence, unless with each mend^er 
added there conies a fresh impetus ami 
a broadening of purpose and infiuence. 
There must be personal effort from 
the membership and ever welcome 
suggestions from citizens generally, 
in order that the usefulness of the 
Board may be extended; its scope 
constantly broadened, and that it may 
always be a live and potent factor in 
the development of Providence and 
of Rhode Island. 

A review of the work accomj)lished 
during thirty-nine years, demonstrates 
that the Providence Board of Trade is a 
working organization that aids mightily 
in the prosperity of the whole State. 
It is one of the largest and strongest 
business organizations in the country; 
not only in point of membership but 
also in the scope of its influence for 
material progress and for unity of 
action on matters of public interest. 




Beacon Lights of Colonial Times 



BY 



CLARENCE BRIGHAM. 




ELEGRAPHIC com- 
^^ miinication of modern 

/ x]\^ "T"* r^i^A '^^^y^ flashes the news 
i-iSs\*^ I /i^ ,,f Q^j^ important event 

around the earth in 
less time than the 
planet itself can re- 
volve and the anni- 
hilation of space by modern engines 
of speed seems to belong to the realms 
of imagination. It is very difhcult 
for US to picture the comparative iso- 
lation of our ancestors of even a 
century ago. News traveled with pain- 
ful slowness. Post-riders, travelling 
by relays, were the fastest means of 
communication. It took nearly three 
weeks to carry the news of Lexington 
to Charlestown, S. C, and it was not 
until July 12th that the people of 
Providence heard from Philadelphia 
of the Declaration of Independence. 

When the defenseless colonies were 
threatened by British invasions, one 
of their first precautions was the 
erection of beacons on high hills, 
the lighted fires of which would give 
warning of hostile approach. In Rhode 
Island, as in the other colonies, this 
custom had come down from the 
earliest colonial times. In 1667, when 
England was at war with France and 



Holland, the CJeneral Assembly of 
Rhode Island, ordered that on the 
approach of the enemy upon the 
coast the Beacon at Wonomytonomy 
Hill should be fired "which shall be 
the directory to the rest of the Beacons 
to be forthwith fired throughout the 
whole colony." They ordered that 
beacons should be erected on the 
rocks at Ladmest Beach, in Petta- 
quamscutt (probably McSparran Hill 
in South Kingston), upon Mill Hill 
(now Quaker 
Hill) in Ports- 
mouth, and 
upon Moshas- 
suc k Hi 
(nowProspect 
Hill in Provi- 
dence.) Un- 







RHODE ISLAND OLD HOME WEEK 



(loubteclly tliese fires were frequently 
lighted during the French Wars to 
give warning of the approach of the 
enemies. In 1670, when a fleet of 
French privateers made a descent 
upon the coast, bonfires were lighted 
at Pawcatuck and thence all along the 
shore to arouse the country. In 1740 
England's declaration of war against 
►Spain caused the assembly to place 
the Colony on a war footing. At 
their February session in that year 
they ordered a beacon to be erected 
at New Shoreham, (where there is 
still a hill called l^eacon Hill) one at 
l\)int Judith, one at Beaver Tail, one 
at Newport and one at Portsmouth. 
In 1744, when the French privateers 
again threatened, the beacons at 
Point Judith and Beaver Tail were 
again renewed. 

The outbreak of the Revolution in 
1775 revived warlike preparations 
throughout the Colony. In July, 1775, 
the town of Providence appointed a 
committee to "erect a Beacon on the 
hill to the Eastward of the Town 
to alarm the country in case of an 
enemy's approach." This beacon was 
duly erected and consisted, according 
to the memory of those who saw it, 
of a high pole or mast at the top of 
which was attached an iron crane. 
I'rom the end of the crane was a large 
iron kettle filled with tar. Solomon 
Drown, writing to his brother on 
August 12, 1775, thus describes it: 
"The Beacon Pole Mast is raised 
on the hill, not very far above the 
Powder House, neady opposite tiie 
church. The top of it, I have heard 
said, is about 80 feet higher than tlie 
top of the new meeting-house steeple 
which is upward of ISO feet from the 
ground. Judge what an extreme view 
it commands. If this reaches you 
before the 17th inst., I wish you 
would go on the hill near your habi- 
tation, at the time appointed, and 
direct your eye towards Providence, 
to descry, if possible, that light on 
which, one time perhaps, our safety 
may in considerable measure depend." 



103 

The appro .\imate location of the 
beacon was at the present corner of 
Prospect and Bowen Streets. It was 
tested on August 17 and its light 
was seen from Cambridge, Newport, 
New London, x\orwicli and Pouifret. 
Beacons were established on hills 
elsewhere in the Colony, although 
we have a less clear record of their 
construction and use. One was erect- 
ed on Beacon Pole Hill in Cumberland 
about two miles northeast of the 
present .Vlanville, and a hole drilled 
in the rock which caps the sununit of 
the hill is still shown as the location 
of the signal. A third was erected 
on Chopmist Hill in the northwest 
corner of Scituate, one of the highest 
hills in the state. Here Squire Wil- 
liams was stationed as kee})er of the 
beacon during most of the time when 
the Hiitish forces were in the state. 
Still a fourth beacon was erected at 
Wonomytononiy Hill near .Newjioit. 
It was fired on June 20, 1770, "that 
the (lountrv might be enabled to 
determine its bearings," and the 
Pi'ovidence (Jazette records that its 
light was plainly visible in Providence. 
Doubtless other beacons were erected 
in the Colony, or more likely the 
inhabitants of the various towns had 
in readiness bonfires on their highest 
points of land, which could be lighted 
at a moment's notice to give warning 
of the approach of the enemy but 
no further record has come down 
to us from the past. From what we 
do know, however, of the use of these 
beacons, we can well realize that their 
pi-esence must have given a feeling of 
security at a time when the house-s of 
our ancestors were threatened and 
their lives were in constant peril. 
Es[)ecially connnendable is the idea 
of the Old Home Week Committee 
to renew the beacon-fires of the K(! vo- 
lution and thereby tell to the country 
in this graphic way that the fiame 
of patriotism, with pride in the 
past and hope in the future, still 
burns in the heart of every Khode 
Islander. 



What Cheer* 

AN OLD HOME WEEK SONG 

BY 
ALFRED G. CHAFFEE 



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In sixteen hundred and thirty-six a man blew in our town, 
His name was Roger WilUams and he's won for us renown, 
His home was Massachusetts, but they found he wouldn't do, 
So he sneaked across the Seekonk in a little birch canoe. 
Now Roger had no family and not a cent aboard, 
A soft felt hat and things like that were all he could afford : 
He wandered up and down the shore while looking for a dock, 
The Joy Line wasn't running then, and so he took a rock. 

Then, He said " What Cheer ? " 

What have we here ? 
Barren shore. 
Nothing more — 

Same old gag they've sprung before I 
It seems quite clear, 
I'll settle here — 
Find a dame 
And change her name 
When I say " What Cheer." 

Now Roger Williams was glad to land in such a quiet place. 
But when he turned around he met an Injun face to face. 
Roger thought he knew the face — he'd seen it once before, 
He said, said he, " It seems to me he owns the other shore." 
But when the other Injuns saw the man they hailed as chief. 
They gathered up their bright, red robes and ran to his relief. 
T'was then the chieftan raised his hand and waved his tommy-hawk, 
And much to Williamses' surprise, the Indian could talk. 

Well, He said " What Cheer?" 
What have we here ? 
Foreign friend, 
I contend. 

You we Injuns will defend. 
It seems quite clear. 
We'll keep you here. 
Here's our hand 
And a bunch of land 
And they all yelled, "What Cheer." 

If Roger Williams should now return, it's clear he'd never know 

The shore he put his foot upon two hundred years ago. 

With telephones, electric cars, why nothing is the same ! 

There's a lot of things that money brings, and some now bear his name- 

A public park, a mill, and one insurance companee. 

The words " What Cheer " the folks have used to name a breweree — 

A stable, too, a laundry, and on ever single day. 

You'll see our pride, on which we ride, go puffing down the Bay. 

Now, He'd say " What Cheer ? " 

What have we here ? 
1 declare, 
Ev'rywhere 

They have used my name for fair! 
It seems quite clear. 
My mem'ry's dear. 
And now I'm dead 
I'm glad 1 said 
Those two words, " WHAT CHEER I " 



Sung in Mr. Cliaffee's comic opera, " The Isle cf Bing." 



RHODE ISLAND 



gLSBREE-VALLEAU CO. 

Sole Agents for loi Westminster Street 

DuNLAp's Hats 



XHAYER & CO., Telephone ,57Z 

Light and Heavy Teaming. Transfer and Ex- 
pressing. Furniture and Pianos Moved. Teams by the 
Day or Hour. Prompt Service, Moderate Rates. 

Office, lo PINE STREET, Providence, R. I. 

QPERA HOUSE CAFE, 1 17 iWance St. 
VALHALLA CAFE ^rn.'fet:^'"" 

Entrance 144 Eddy Street PROVIDENCE, R. I. 
Julius LAGER(y;isT, Prop. 



SHERWOOD ICE COMPANY 

Wholesale — ICE — and Retail 
Office, I 24 Washington Street 

Providence, R. I. 

Georc;e B. Sherwood^ Pres. and Treas. 
W. N. LovvRV, Vice-Pres. 
J. T. UowNiNfi, Sec'v. 



OLDHOMEWEEK 105 

W. R- BUFFINGTON 

Souvenirs and Souvenir Post Cards 

Telepiione _„ w . • n 

,' ,, . o Westminster Street 

41 ^6-L I iiion 



MUNICH CAFE 

I 8 and 20 Page Street 

Haid & Gerstenlauer ProsideiKC, R. I. 

1h;merson, the jkwki.kk 

'J'wo Stores 

33 and 675 Westminster Street 

" (jood Tailoring at Reasonable Prices " 

TOHN McMANUS CO. 

Tailors 

|. Al'STlX .\k{;REE\N-, .Manai.er 

87 Dorrance Street 
Narragansett Hotel 




WRIGHT 

& DITSON 

Manufacturers and 
Dealers in 

General Athletic 
Supplies 

Base Ball, Tennis, 
GoLK, Etc. 

76 Weybosset St. 

Opp. Arcade 
yisk for Ciilalo\riie 



(COMPLIMENTS OF 



PROVIDENCE, FALL RIVER AND 
NEWPORT STEAMBOAT CO. 

Marine Transportation to NEWPORT and 
BLOCK ISLAND and to FIELDS POIN'I', 
CRESCENT PARK and ROCKY POIN'I' 
where the famous " Rhode Island Clam- 
hakes " are served. Fare to the Shore 
Places 10c, Excursion Tickets to New- 
port 60c. 'Block Island $1.00. 

Steamers for charter on application to 

H. E. WINDSOR, Supt. 



New 

England 

Steam 

Brick 

Company 



30- - J - 4 

BANIGAN BL ILDING 



106 



OFFICIAL SOUVENIR AND PROGRAM 



[)AUER AUTO COMPANY 

24-28 Richmond Street 


^^X/E MAKE 

Gold and Silver, Rolled Plate and Wire, 
Sterling Silver Sheet and Wire, 
Gold and Silver Solders, 
Gold Anodes. 

Vennerbeck & Clase Co.""— "'°7 

Makers of PLATE 

tor the Particular Jeweler 

59 Page Street .... Providence, R. I. 


Established i88z 190:" 

N. B. NICKERSON 

Manufacturing Jeweler 

85 Page Street 
Providence, R. 1. 


rjON'T FAIL TO VISIT 

BOYDEN HEIGHTS 

and listen to 

MAGUIRE'S ORCHESTRA 

DANCING 

Afternoon and Evening 


Compliments 

Providence 

Public 

Market 

*=C^ ^O* Sy* "O* '*0' S?* ^ 


L.F. PEASE CO., Incorporated 
Decorators 

With Official Colors for Old Home Week 

Manufacturers of Awnings, Tents, 
Flags, Society and Parade Banners, 
Loom Aprons, Wool Shirts, Canvas 
Hammocks. 

Dealers in Aw^nings, Tents, Flag 
Makers' Supplies. 

Canvas in w^idths from 6 to 1 44 in. 
Manilla, Cotton, Russia and Italian 
Hemp Bolt Rope. 

Government Khaki Duck for ladies' 
dresses, hunting suits, launch awnings 
and tents. 

Canopy Awnings to let for wed- 
dings and receptions. 

Tents to let by day or week. 

7 £v 13 Crawford Street 

Tel. 217 Union 



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107 



POR OVER FIFTY YEARS 

Rhode Island's Leading Clothing Store 

Established :8,z J. fi. BARNABY CO. V.^^M.U., ,,,. 

Specialists in Wearing Apparel for Men, Women and Children 
The Barnaby Corner, Westminster and Dorrance Srs. 



Bryant & Stratton Business Colicirc 

357 Westminster Street, Providence, R. I. 



<^y<^ . 



F. C. BU IMAN 



,, ^fi^^ ■ '""l iii Modern Hand 

\]m ^^'4^\nmr- laundry 



140-142 and 146-156 
PINE STREET 

Providence, R. 1. 



Providence 
Engineering 



Works 



MANCFAC Tl'KHKS (IF 



Steam and Gas Engines 

Unequalled for Economy, 
Durability and Reliability 



Rice & Sargent 
Engines 

Established 1828 



j; MORGAN & SONS 

Dr. Haynes' Arabian Balsai 

Dr. j. Miller's Vegetable Expectorant 

Miller's (Haynes) .Arabian Balsam 

Dr Miller's Soothing and Healing Balsam 



I 6 High Street 



Pnniiiencc, R. I. 



Fuller 
Iron Works 

South Main and lockwotton Sts. 

PkON IDENCK, K. I. 



Iron Founders 
and Machinists 



Cast Iron Castings 



Established 1840 



108 



OFFICIAL SOUVENIR AND PROGRAM 



^BORN STREET TURKISH BATHS 

36 Aborn Street, Providence, R. I. 
LAniEs' Day, Wednesday ALWAYS OPEN 

Good Sleeping Accommodations 
Telephone 57Si-K WHITELKY & HEATON, Props. 



]^ILLS TEA AND BUTTER CO. 

Butter, Eggs, Tea and Coffee 
Seven Stores in Rhode Island 

pRASER BROTHERS 

297 Weybosset St. Teas, CofFees 

Providence, R. I. 



UNITED STATES 

DENTAL ASSOCIATION 

DR. H. A. LEWIS, Manager 

Music Hall, 386 Westminster Street 

Providence, R. I. 
Telephone 263 I 



QOMPLIMENTS OF A FRIEND 



T^ PUTNEY & CO. Manufacturing 

'' * 76 Westminster St. Opticians 

Providence, R. I. Telephone J161-J 

Occulists' Prescriptions Carefully Filled 

GERMAN'S DAIRY LUNCH 

486 Westminster Street 
NEVER CLOSED 
TRY OUR FAMOUS COFFEE 



J(^EITH'S THEATRE 



E. F. ALBEE, 

Proprietor 



Y D'ALFONSO'S European Cafe 

The Most Select Place in the City 
Hot Free Lunches served at all times 
We are sure to please you Telephone 2271-R 

266 Atwells Avenue, Providence 

jS^EW LUNCH ROOM for Ladies and 
Gentlemen, 212 Union St., corner 
Weybosset. Home Cooking, Delicious Coffee. 

Prices Reasonable. FLETCHER BUILDING. 

■ Take Elevator. 

PROVIDENCE SLATE AND 

GRAVEL ROOFING CO. 

Slate and Gravel Roof Contractors 

55 FOUNTAIN ST. Providence, R. I. 

Telephone Connection 

^3.00, $4.00 and $5.00 Boots and Oxfords 

$2.00 ^"^AMPLE SHOE SHOP 

Room 252 Butler Exchange 
Up One Flight 

u^POSTOLI INSTITUTE" 

Vapor Baths, Massage and Electrical 
Treatments given tor Rheumatism, Neuralgia 
and Nervousness. 

144 Westminster Street 



'pHE MERIT SHOE, $3,00 

FLqual to any $4.00 Shoe on the market 

220 Westminster Street 

Providence, R. I. 

QENTRAL AUTOMOBILE 

. , EXCHANGE 

67-71 Fountam Street 

26-30 Sabin Street Providence, R. I. 

Compliments ot 

gENATE CAFE 

BANIGAN BUILDING 



JDEAL VENTILATOR CO. 

38 Weybosset Street 

QOMPLIMENTS OF 

Truly Warner 



RHODE ISLAND OLD HOME WEEK 



109 



T^ T. FEARNEY & SON 
* Fish, Game, Oysters, Eohstcrs 
4i-44 Exchange Pi.ArF. 

Telephones 1204 — 1105 — i io6 — IZ07 


'f HE GREAT ATLANTIC 

AND PACIFIC IKA CO. 
363 Westminster Street 

Hoppin Homestead Building 


^ING DENTAI, CO. 

230 Westminster Street 


|:>RO\ IDKNCE WALL I'AI'KR 

HOUSE- 445 Westminster Street 

114 IVarl Sireel, Boston, Mass. I' Rf)\ 1 1) 1- S CK, K. 1. 
C. A. CADV, I'i;..ii(n 11 


^ACKETT & KAY'S 

412-414 Westminster St. ^he Shoe Store 

Next door to Empire Theatre That's Talked About 
PROVIDENCE. 


J^AR'I'IN LINDBLAI) 

Hatter and Men's Furnisher 
427 Westminster Street 

Opp. Burrill Street Open llM-iiinu^ 


QWEN E. LEAVENS & CO. 

Hatters and Haberdashers 
86 Westminster Street 


\YHriE SEWING MACHINES 

49 1 Westminster Street 
Telephone Providence, R. 1. 


THOMAS EVANS ---™--'^ 

STEAM ENGINEER 

75 Westminster Street 


^LAL'S HANSON 

Men's Oltiittkr 

2 14 Union Street and 
1954 Westminster Street 


^AYNARD'S Eleven Ch.mrs 

Hair Cutting and Shaving Rooms 
Banigan Building Room Three 


G, H. WEA\T.R Light and Heavy 
Telephone Conn. Teaming and F^.vpressing 
Office, 428 South U'ater Street 


GEORGE BECKER & CO. 

^^^.JT^ P'fi" Manufacturing jewelers, 

11 Maiden Lane -' ' 

86 Page Street, Providence, R. I. 

A general line of Rolled Plated, Gold Filled, Gold 
Front and Sterling Goods. 


gURKE & CURRAN 

Complete House Furnishers 

270 & 272 Wevbossct Street 

PROXIDKXCK 


f^OPKINS HOTEL T. A. Cunl.kk, I'ropr 

943-945-947 Westminster St. 

Rooms 50c. to Providence, R. I. 

$1. 50 per dav 


COMPLIMENTS OF 

FAY'S HAND 


E, L. FREEMAN COMPANY 

Printers, Binders ^^^""^ ^°''^'' Stationerv 
and Engravers and Office Supplies 

PRovinENCE Pawtucket Central Falls 


Waldorf lunch 

384 N^'estminster Street 

Telephone Union 769-R 

OPEN DAY AND NIGHT 


TURNER CENTRE DAIRYING ASS'N 
Fine Creamery Butter. Dealers in Sweet 
Cream and Eggs. Factory and Principal Office, 
Auburn, Maine. S. H. DEANE, Agent Providence 
Branch. Telephone i 78. 


GEORGE P. TYLER 

Jeweler and Optician 

494 Westminster Street 
Providence, R. I. 



110 



OFFICIAL SOUVENIR AND PROGRAM 



Compliments of 



W. A. Harris 
Steam Engine 
Company 



Builders of 



Harris- Corliss 

Engines 



Thomas F. Peirce 
& Son 

Westminster and Dorrance Streets 
Established 18:56 

Retailers of 



High Grade Shoes 
and Hosiery 



The Original Peirce Shoe Store was opened in the 
year 1767, one hundred and forty years ago, on what 
is now Wevhosset Street, opposite Richmond Street. 



What Cheer S^rewery 

THE OLDEST AND MOST FAMOUS BREWERY IN RHODE ISLAND 




YOU KNOW 

u/hat Cheer U^affer 

TRY A GLASS OF 

princess -^le 



princess J%h 



nncess 

and 



U/hat Cheer jCa^er 



RHODE ISLAND OLD HOME WEEK 




111 



Puritan 



Chocolates aiid 
Chocolate Bon Boris 



I.Dok for the name I'lKITAN 
on ever>- piece 

Manufactured bv 

Weeks Brothers (^o. 

167-179 Richmond Street 
Providence, R. I. 

Hstablished 1HA7 



PUTNAM BOILERS for Steam and Water Heating. 

PUTNAM DRIP and Air Line System does away with Air Valves on Steam Radiators. 
PUTNAM WATER HEATING Attachment heats water for domestic purposes. 
PUTNAM CLOCK and DAMPER Attachment opens draft on heater in the morning. 

"Putnam for Quality" 

Putnam Foundry and Machine Co. 



69 and 73 South Main Street 



PROVIDENCE. K. I. 




(^1^ 1— [r^mp» Wlf^f^\z is not complete without a trip to SAKONNET. Take 
VyiU IIUIIIC VV CCIS. ^^^ ., Islander " at 9 a. m. for a sail down Mt. Hope 
Bay, through historic Bristol Harbor, and down Sakonnet River to the bold and rugged coast ot 
the Atlantic. An ideal trip with a SHORE DINNER one of the best on the Coast. See daily 
papers for time table. P. W . AL\'n\ Gen. Manag er, 2" Exchange ^trect. 



112 



OFFICIAL SOUVENIR AND PROGRAM 



Drink "Yankee Brew 

'The new BREWED Temperance Drink 
On Draught at all First Class Places 



yy 



Yankee Brew Co, 

p. O. Box 1556, Providence, R. I. 



Made from Bark and Hops 




John Austin & Son 

GOLD AND SILVER 

Refiners, Assayers and Smelters 

74-76 Clifford Street 
PROVIDENCE, R. I. 



Established 1862 



McGUINNESS REAL ESTATE CO. 
Real Estate, Mortgages and Insurance 



Special attention given to INSURANCE 

Merchants Bank Building, Rooms 45-46-47 
32 Westminster Street, Providence, R. I. 



MONEY TO LOAN 



Telephone 



QOMPLIMENTS OF C. H. GREATON 

1335 North Main Nurseryman 
Street, Providence, R. I. 

(^ONLEY & STRAIGHT 

Gold and Silver Refiners 

Assayers and Sweep Smelters 236 EDDY ST 

Telephone 704 Providence, R. I. 

Drink PHOSA 

v^ GLASS, 5C BOTTLE 



QOMI'LIMENTS OF ORRIN E. JONES 

5 3 to 67 Central St. Storage Warehouses 

PROVinENCE, R. I. Telephone 41 70 

]h;^ j. knight & CO. 

Banigan Building 

Providence 

^EW ENTERPRISE 

WET WASH LAUNDRY 

^82 Fountain Street 

Providence, R. 1. Telephone 2762-L Union 

p^OTEL BRISTOL 

6-9 Market Square 

FIRST CLASS 

Permanent and Transient Rooms 

LEE, ODEN & COMPANY 

Tailors — Importers 

401-402-403-413 Lapham Building 

290 Westminster Street, I'rovidence, R. I. 




.^^1= OV)TUT,T5nUTZ 



OLD M0?/15: y/sAii ^ .<iv^* ■ 



Triumphal Arch 

Erected by one of the larger Department Stores 

in honor of Old Home Week 



R. A. Hurley 

Real Estate 
Mort^a^es 
Insurance 

Manager of Property 

102 Banigan Building 
PROVIDENCE 



CALDER'S 

Sdpon a c e Cru 6 ^«^T-b|fe:^ 

DENTINE 





pferfedt Teeth: 

/ It Tnd^ke/y^Teethj 

/J'rm <L rec/, and keepyl 
themfo. Y'^/land] 

ard Tooth-powder 
for 5b Ye 2).. r/* 
'Ti/ fold e(/er/uf/iere§ 

A/dmpIe on refuejc 
Albert L.CeLlder.^^'' 

Providence R.I ■ 



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LOOK FOR THIS SIGN 
AND ACCEPT NO. SUBSTITUTE 




PROVIDENCE AGENTS 

GREENE d, COMPANY, 72 ORANGE STREET 
GORMAN &. COMPANY, 8 WICKENDEN STREET 
JOHN PRIOR, 26 CANAL STREET 
O'CONNOR BROTHERS, 661 BROADWAY 



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